WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain intends to talk about how teachers are paid and tutoring for poor kids when he goes before the NAACP convention next week.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee isn’t expected to roll out an education platform until the end of the summer, but his remarks July 16 to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s annual meeting in Cincinnati are expected to touch on his support for expanding merit-pay programs for teachers who improve their students’ academic performance.
McCain education adviser Lisa Keegan told The Associated Press that the Arizona senator decided his appearance before the civil-rights group was the right opportunity to talk about schools. Keegan said McCain supports changes but not a scrapping of President Bush’s signature No Child Left Behind law.
