Advisers Take Public Roles in Campaigns
Education Policy Experts Offer Varied Ideas to McCain, Obama
It’s become a familiar sight for education policy mavens this election season: panel discussions, in Washington and elsewhere, hashing out the presumptive presidential nominees’ differences on performance pay for teachers, private school vouchers, and other reliable topics of debate.
But the candidates themselves haven’t appeared at these events—it’s been their surrogates, experts who are helping to craft education plans for Sen. John McCain or Sen. Barack Obama.
Such advisers, whether paid staff members or volunteers, help send signals on the policy directions their candidates would pursue if elected...
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