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The administration’s higher-education pressure campaign was running into open resistance, with schools and education groups treating the White House’s “compact” as a loyalty test dressed up as reform. On October 21, the story was no longer whether the offer was controversial; it was how quickly it was turning into a public referendum on federal meddling in universities.
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The administration’s higher-education pressure campaign was running into open resistance, with schools and education groups treating the White House’s “compact” as a loyalty test dressed up as reform. On October 21, the story was no longer whether the offer was controversial; it was how quickly it was turning into a public referendum on federal meddling in universities.
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The administration’s higher-education pressure campaign was running into open resistance, with schools and education groups treating the White House’s “compact” as a loyalty test dressed up as reform. On October 21, the story was no longer whether the offer was controversial; it was how quickly it was turning into a public referendum on federal meddling in universities.
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