Education bills get initial nod from D.C. Council

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A bundle of education bills — including a controversial effort to make D.C. students take the SAT or ACT to graduate, and another paying top teachers to transfer to bad schools — passed their first hurdle Tuesday.

The D.C. Council passed Chairman Kwame Brown’s “Raising the Expectations for Education Outcomes Act of 2012,” which lumps together four education bills Brown introduced or co-sponsored this session.

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