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Obama/NEA: Philadelphia Inquirer (Thomas Fitzgerald) “Obama tells teachers he supports merit pay”: Illinois Sen. Barack Obama today endorsed the idea of merit pay for teachers before an audience hostile to the idea, the giant National Education Association, but he softened the blow by telling the union's national assembly he would not use "arbitrary tests" to link pay to performance. It was a measure of Democrat Obama's rock-star appeal that he did not draw any hisses with the pronouncement, and even got scattered applause. Obama's endorsement of merit pay for teachers was the first note deviating from the promise-anything tenor of visits by several presidential candidates to the union this week. LINK