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...expect to face a huge test right off in the contentious reauthorization of the federal No Child Left Behind act, considered to be one of the first priorities in Congress come January. Down the road, he or she can also plan to direct the founding of hundreds of new charter schools and the spread of universal pre-K nationwide, as well as a continued focus on increased accountability and a better trained teacher corps...
...tapped: In New York, the former Clinton appointee has distinguished himself as a keen reformer under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. An attorney by training, Klein has also shown himself adept at working with unlikely partners - union leaders as well as the Rev. Al Sharpton - and is a major proponent of charter schools, a keystone in Obama's education agenda...
...couple of days, I've been just feeling good," he said a bit wistfully as he introduced his family onstage in Cleveland. "Sometimes it's lonely on the road." But their family reunion was short-lived. At the city's airport, Michelle and the girls headed for a separate charter jet that was bound for home in Chicago, where school beckoned. Obama returned to his campaign plane, and the countdown of the final hours...
Hawaii approaches Nov. 4 with great anticipation. After all, the Honolulu-born Barack Obama may just become the next President of the United States. But there is something else on the ballot that makes a lot of locals uneasy: the chance to rewrite the state's charter by starting up a constitutional convention. Hawaii is one of three states (the others being Illinois and Connecticut) with the issue of rewriting its constitution on the ballot. And it is also the object lesson for all who'd like to do so. Hawaii has convened what locals call "ConCons" twice since...
...standoff between the two camps is likely to be over the country's constitution. The government said earlier this week that it would begin selecting members of an assembly to rewrite the current constitution within 120 days. The government's original announcement in April that it would change the charter, drafted by a military-appointed assembly and approved in a national referendum in 2007, brought the PAD back out on to the streets after it had been dormant for a year-and-a-half. Thaksin's opponents are worried the government is trying to rewrite the constitution in ways that...