
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 10, 1991                   TAG: 9104100441
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

PRESIDENT HONORS TEACHER IN W.VA.

President Bush flew to a rural West Virginia community today to honor this year's national Teacher of the Year as he prepares to renew a push for educational excellence that had its roots in his 1988 campaign.

Bush presented the award to Rae McKee, a reading teacher at Slanesville Elementary School in the state's eastern panhandle.

Aides said Bush, who said in his election campaign that he wanted to be the "education president," would work to highlight his education agenda in the coming weeks.

He is expected soon to unveil an education that will renew his earlier proposal to give parents more choice in where to send their children, said the aides.

McKee, 33, a teacher for 11 years, said

she had turned down a chance to be a lawyer because "teaching is in my blood."

by CNB