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Obama-ed promises more of the same:
-- favoring charter or for-profit schools over public ones;
-- running them by marketplace rules;
-- requiring state laws conform to federal ones, in violation of the 10th Amendment mandating "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States, or to the people;" education isn't mentioned in the Constitution;
-- linking teacher pay to student performance as determined by standardized tests that measure rote memory, not real learning;
-- putting Washington bureaucrats in charge of undermining states, local school boards, and the right of parents to decide what's best for their children;
-- requiring federal mandates be followed to qualify for funding;
-- creating a two-tiered, class and income-based system favoring affluent school districts over inner-city ones; and
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