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What does the 2016 presidential election say about the Obama education agenda? Will that agenda stick, or face erosion? We will address this in this, the closing chapter. As we write, after former Texas Governor Rick Perry and immediately after Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker pulled out of the presidential race, there are still an astonishing 14 GOP candidates running. The numbers reflect a GOP resurgence and the difficulty any party, in this case the Democrats, has winning three consecutive presidential races. This makes the Republican nomination a much sought-after commodity. We can broadly characterize the 14 remaining GOP presidential candidates as local education libertarians and business-driven modernizers.
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Vermont’s Town-Tuitioning Program is one of two such programs in the USA and was launched in 1869. This program allows students living in districts that do not have public schools to enroll in a school outside of their home district. The sending town pays the tuition to the receiving school, be it public or non-religious private. The receiving school can be outside of the state of Vermont (Town-Tuitioning Program, 2015).
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Maranto, R., McShane, M.Q., Rhinesmith, E. (2016). Shall This Too Pass? Education Reform in the Obama Era and Beyond. In: Education Reform in the Obama Era. Education Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58212-6_4
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