Yeah, that pretty well sums it up. A chicken in every pot, and all kids above average! HopeyChange!

Let me point out something blazingly obvious to anyone who’s actually been involved in local education. Local schools are locally run. You cannot “fix” them without starting at the bottom, at the local level. You want better local schools? Get active in supporting your local schools. The federal government is not your problem there. Nor is it your solution.

All I see there is a lot of soaring rhetoric crying out for more “free” education money–acomopanied by greater federal micro-management of local schools. And more rhetoric that is blatantly double-talk. EX:

To facilitate a level playing field, there is a push to make college more affordable for the average American “by creating a new American Opportunity Tax Credit to ensure that the first $4,000 of a college education is completely free. In exchange for the credit, students will be expected to perform community service.”

So completely free actually means politically-determined and assigned effective-low-wage “community service.” But they’re gonna be “volunteers,” of course.