PrintJuly 16, 2008
Obama and the Independent School District
"I don't want to send another generation of American children to failing schools." (Barack Obama, Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, Des Moines, Iowa, November 10, 2007)The signature initiative of an Obama campaign for a second term would be nationalizing public education, kindergarten through grade 12. If it happens, say goodbye to the Independent School District (I.S.D.) as we've known it.The Obama campaign document entitled "The Blueprint For Change: Barack Obama's Plan For America" continues to be ignored by the old media news. The section entitled "Plan To Give Every American Child A World Class Education," was profiled earlier in much of its mind-numbing detail inAmerican Thinker. Of the fifteen topics in his Blueprint, "Education" is arguably the most thoroughly articulated, with community "Service" a close second. (In comparison "Veterans" is a flyby.) Barack Obama has clear and audacious intentions concerning public education...(Read Full Article)
