Obama Slips Merit Pay Into Larger Plan on Schools
Sen. Barack Obama wants to start a new program supporting an innovative-schools fund that his campaign says would allow districts to create “portfolios” of schools modeled after existing success stories.
The proposal, released in a summary Sept. 9 when the Democratic presidential nominee gave a speech on education in Riverside, Ohio, sounds similar to a bill he has introduced twice since entering the U.S. Senate in 2005.
But the Obama campaign’s summary omits one detail of the legislative plan: The bill would require participating districts to experiment with linking teacher pay...
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