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Published: 10/20/08

Obama Education Reform Efforts Get an 'F'

By  Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily
Obama Education Reform Efforts Get an 'F'

One of the issues that Sen. Barack Obama regularly mentions as being critically important to his campaign and a potential Obama administration is education. Obama has sought to tout his credentials as an education reformer, even as he has sought to distance himself from the man with whom he sought to implement an ambitious education reform agenda in Chicago, William Ayers, the unrepentant former head of the domestic terrorist organization the Weather Underground. But Obama and Ayers' efforts in leading the Chicago Annenberg Challenge are receiving low marks from the man who was in charge of ...

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Published: 08/21/08

University Shields Obama Records from Press

By  Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily
University Shields Obama Records from Press

The University of Illinois at Chicago finds itself in the middle of a growing controversy over the records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which it maintains at its Richard J. Daley Library. Sen. Barack Obama served on the Annenberg board of directors from 1995 until the project ended in 2001, spending three years as its first chairman. It was on the broad of the Annenberg Challenge where Sen. Obama served with the notorious former head of the 1960's radical group, William Ayers. The Annenberg Challenge was founded by Ayers and was responsible for administering a private grant of nearly ...

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