Obama prepares education overhaul (AP via Yahoo! News)
President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to rewrite the nation's sweeping and controversial education law known as No Child Left Behind with a plan to prepare students for life after high school and to place better teachers at the blackboards.
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Obama to submit new education initiative (AFP via Yahoo! News)
US President Barack Obama announced Saturday he will be sending to Congress a new education initiative designed to better prepare high school graduates for college and a professional career.
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Obama chooses 1st young appeals court nominee (AP via Yahoo! News)
Thirteen months into his presidency, Barack Obama finally gave liberal supporters the kind of judicial nominee they had sought and conservatives feared.
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New funding projection could squeeze Obama's education agenda (Washington Post)
In the final push to pass a major student aid bill pending in Congress, funding for key elements in President Obama's education agenda is dwindling.
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Senators resist Obama over projects in health bill (AP via Yahoo! News)
President Barack Obama says he wants projects helping specific states yanked from the health care bill Congress is writing. Democratic senators, being senators, beg to differ.
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