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Article: Bradley Details School Plan; Gore Attacks $8 Billion Proposal as Not Comprehensive Enough
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- The Washington Post
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- February 10, 2000
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Bill Bradley announced a plan today to bolster schools in poor
areas with $8 billion more each year for training and rewarding
teachers, with one huge string attached: If a school failed to
improve, parents could transfer their children to another public
school.
"Money from Washington should no longer be a one-way street,"
Bradley told an assembly beneath the basketball hoops at University
City High School. "As president, I will expect great things from all
our children."
Bradley's speech today represented his most expansive comments yet
on education, an issue that consistently ranks among the top of