-The Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2009 by Kelly Evans
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/10/22/is-obamas-health-care-push-jeopardizing-education-reform/
Christopher Edley Jr., dean of the University of California-Berkeley’s School of Law, said the President’s transition team—of which he was a member—had a difficult time whittling down its priorities. “We tried to make a list of just two or three things and couldn’t do it,” he said.
-October 22, 2009 Moderator Alan Murray
http://online.wsj.com/video/the-barriers-to-education-reform/7C6D7249-D62B-461A-A10C-7F27D8233D7B.html
“You have to appreciate that overwhelming advice, non-stop for the last year and a half, has been ‘Forget about education; do that later.’ And he keeps putting it up there; he keeps pushing it to the front burner so I think there’s no issue there about the fact that the President understands it, he understands the importance of it with respect to the economy. The question is whether or not he’s going to pick the right strategy to advance the program.”
-October 26, 2009 Moderator Alan Murray
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704754804574491180197671224.html
If this really is a national priority, both with respect to opportunity and with respect to competitiveness, you have to ask yourself whether a 19th century model for financing and governing K-12 is going to work in this century, and I profoundly believe the answer is no.