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Dodd Denounces Merit Pay For Teachers In Veiled Swipe At Obama
Christopher Dodd just released this statement on merit pay for teachers, a policy Barack Obama endorsed yesterday:
"The service of all our public school teachers is meritorious and deserves our support. I fear that instituting a merit pay system may encourage teaching to the test and discourage teachers from working in schools with large numbers of disadvantaged students. As the principle [sic] author of the No Child Left Behind Reform Act, I believe that we should instead focus our reform efforts on measuring school performance based on individual student's growth, targeting resources to where they are most needed, and adding a greater degree of common sense to the teacher certification process."
Dodd has used his experience in education policy as one of the central selling points of his presidential bid.
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