Obama stated his tenets of education reform including, early childhood education, which includes a health component, merit pay for teachers and better testing and assessment. Republicans will probably say this has nothing to do with banking (if they dare speak against education reform) and that Obama is distracted from the precious stock market, but reasonable people realize that education leads to a better economy.
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