A $4 Billion Push for Better Schools – Obama Hopes Funding Will Be Powerful Incentive in ‘Race to the Top’

President Obama is leaning hard on the nation’s schools, using the promise of more than $4 billion in federal aid — and the threat of withholding it — to strong-arm the education establishment to accept more charter schools and performance pay for teachers.

By Michael D. Shear and Nick Anderson
Washington Post Staff Writers

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