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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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Budget Easter Eggs: Performance Pay

By Marc Ambinder

Feb 26 2009, 2:00 PM ET Comment

Decipher this, please. "This Budget supports additional investments in consultation with other teachers and stakeholders, to implement systems that reward strong teacher performance and help less effective teachers improve,or, if they do not, exit the classroom." (pp.24)   So -- does this budget include the beginning of performance pay for teachers? 



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