Campaign K-12

Your education road map to the 2008 state and national elections

Michele McNeil covered education and state government in Indiana for a decade before joining Education Week in June 2006. She now focuses on state policy, school choice, and school finance—and how elections affect K-12 education.

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Where Education Matters in Campaigns

In Delaware, which has a hotly contested race for governor, funding public schools is becoming a big issue as the state faces a $250 million budget deficit.

And in Chicago, a new report says Latinos are particularly concerned about the issue, especially since they face long lines for prekindergarten programs in their neighborhoods and persistently high dropout rates.

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