ON TAP: EDUCATION WARS, SENATE BATTLES, AND FINANCIAL MELEES.

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The fight over the future of the public school system is not just important -- it's also pretty vicious. Dana Goldstein assesses the state of the education wars, which pit members of the Democratic coalition against each other.

Meanwhile, Ezra Klein wonders if the reconciliation process could be successfully used to bring us back to a 50-vote Senate.

And Robert Kuttner calls the securitization system a "doomsday machine."

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