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• House votes to simplify education tax breaks
• Walsh campaign: Senator won't withdraw from race
• Paying Teachers to Give Up Tenure: What’s the Right Price?

House votes to simplify education tax breaks Posted: 24 Jul 2014 02:36 PM PDT The House passed a bill Thursday that would simplify a complicated patchwork of tax breaks for higher education but would exclude many graduate students. The bill would make permanent a tax credit that ...

Walsh campaign: Senator won't withdraw from race Posted: 24 Jul 2014 02:08 PM PDT HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Sen. John Walsh remained steadfast Thursday amid allegations he plagiarized a research project required for a master's degree, winning fresh backing from fellow Democrats in Montana and the governor who appointed him to the Senate earlier this year.

Paying Teachers to Give Up Tenure: What’s the Right Price? Posted: 23 Jul 2014 04:26 PM PDT Education reformer Michelle Rhee once called teacher tenure the Holy Grail of elementary and secondary school educators. In the latest tenure fight, a California judge last month ruled that the state's last-hired, first-fired teacher tenure system deprives minority and low-income students of an equal education. Economist Allison Schrager, however, has proposed an alternative view that could help end the fighting: convince teachers to trade job protection for cold, hard cash. Surveys show that public school teachers are among society's lowest-paid workers;

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