Education Policy a Whipping Boy for GOP Hopefuls

By Stacy Morford

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Published: Friday, Sept. 30 2011 5:25 a.m. MDT

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TON – The Republicans running for president may be working to stand out from the pack on some issues, but it already appears that most of the nine current candidates are largely united when it comes to K-12 policy: They want to dramatically shrink the federal role.

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Steven S Jarvis

Orem, UT

Other than beloved NCLB, what public education policy has the GOP come up with over the last twenty years? Locally the GOP's education policy has been to ignore education it unless criticizing or severely cutting back on the system. There isn't but More..

9:06 a.m. Sept. 30, 2011
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Fred44

Salt Lake City, Utah

Steven you are kind. I would say that they are anti-education precisely because they don't want to pay for it. We spend our money on the things that we value and republicans whether they be on the national or the local political scene do not want to More..

10:17 a.m. Sept. 30, 2011
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