VP Choice Backed School Funding Overhaul
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin acknowledges the crowd as Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., not pictured, introduces her as his vice presidential running mate on Aug. 29 in Dayton, Ohio.
—Kiichiro Sato/AP
Sarah Palin supportive of state’s performance-pay plan.
In tapping Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, presumed Republican presidential nominee John McCain has selected an elected official who has supported increased funding for education across her rural, frontier state and voiced support for school-choice programs that appeal to many conservatives.
A mother of five children, Ms. Palin, 44, vaults onto the national stage as the vice presidential nominee from relative obscurity, at least within the political and education circles of the nation’s capital.
The Republican governor was elected to that post less than two years ago. Before that, she was the mayor of Wasilla, a suburb of Anchorage, which is...
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