?Class Warfare,? veteran journalist Steven Brill?s intensive look at the recent history of U.S. school reform, opens in the Oval Office on Jan. 29, 2009. President Obama, Rahm Emanuel and several other members of the Obama inner circle listened as a man named John Schnur described his Race to the Top program for education reform. Schnur, whom Brill describes as ?deferential and soft-spoken, even when he is the person in the room who knows the most,? came with a three-page summary of his proposal. By the end of the meeting, the president, with some prodding from Emanuel, agreed to invest $15 billion in Schnur?s plan, which eventually became the signature piece of Obama?s education reform. In essence, Schnur?s Race to the Top invited states to compete in creating school improvement plans which had to include encouragement of charter schools and the creation of detailed strategies for using student test scores to evaluate teachers. The 10 to 15 states that came up with the best plans would get pieces of the $15 billion.
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