Making Education a Centerpiece of Obama’s Rebuilding Plan | The LA Progressive

"The opportunity for progressives is to push the Obama administration to change our national course – to return to the old-fashioned belief that knowledge and education were good things. Eight years of ignoring the facts provided by Intelligence experts, the facts about global warming, and the facts that our core industries were slipping away from being able to compete with foreign companies, provide us with examples we can use to explain the value of education.

We have to demand that education become a centerpiece of Obama’s rebuilding plan. And we have to resist when corporations and their lapdogs rail against programs to adequately staff and equip schools. We need to remind the world of the successes attained by graduates of the New Deal literacy programs and the G.I. Bill. We have to proclaim that today’s children are no less deserving of opportunity than the children of the 1930s. And that today’s soldiers should not be coming home to less medical care and educational opportunity than our fathers had, returning from WWII."