Federal Money, Teachers' Unions and Education Reform
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2009
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The Obama Administration's inviting the states to "Race to the Top" by competing for $4.3 billion in stimulus money. Is that enough to get teachers unions to change their minds on charter schools, merit pay or standardized tests to evaluate teacher performance? Also, a House deal on healthcare, and Microsoft and Yahoo join forces to challenge Google.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.8 | Federal money, teachers unions, and education reform. |
| 0:14.6 | Hello again, I'm Orin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:18.5 | A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:21.0 | President Obama is dangling $4.3 billion in stimulus money to promote charter schools, merit |
| 0:26.9 | pay, and standardized tests for evaluating teachers. He says states with laws against such evaluations |
| 0:32.3 | won't get any money, which rules out New York and California. Even in other states, |
| 0:36.8 | Education Secretary Arnie Duncan |
| 0:38.3 | could be up against opposition |
| 0:39.6 | from teachers' unions, |
| 0:41.2 | a major force in the Democratic Party. |
| 0:43.5 | Will the prospect of all that money |
| 0:45.1 | turn the unions around? |
| 0:46.6 | What's the future of what the president calls |
| 0:48.4 | race to the top? |
| 0:50.0 | On reporters' notebook later on, |
| 0:51.5 | Microsoft and Yahoo joined forces |
| 0:53.5 | against Google. |
| 0:55.3 | First, here's the news. |
| 0:56.5 | Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio International Program Fund, |
| 1:03.6 | whose contributors include the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, |
| 1:08.3 | and the Rockefeller Foundation and its campaign for American workers. |
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