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it was surprising to see Sharpton received in the Oval Office -- alongside Newt Gingrich -- as an education visionary, just a few weeks after the donation story broke in the Daily News. And it's even more surprising, as Politico reports, that Sharpton and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will now be embarking on a five-city school reform tour. It signals that the administration is publicly allying itself with only one side in the intra-Democratic Party "education wars," leaving more traditional education liberals -- those who focus on segregation and child poverty -- appearing left out to dry.

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