Effort for Education as Campaign Issue Fights for Traction
Manchester, N.H.
In a recent television commercial here, Sen. Barack Obama connects his personal story to his education agenda, calling for spending on early-childhood education and attracting a “whole new generation of teachers” to public schools.
“We should give every child the same chances that I had,” Mr. Obama, an Illinois Democrat seeking his party’s nomination for president, says in the ad.
TV spots like this one that home in on education policy have been rare so far in the contests for the 2008 Democratic and Republican presidential nominations, in which the candidates generally haven’t spent much...
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