Get out that trusty Reform-o-Meter because Team Obama is finally showing some heat. For his very first visit to a public school as President, Barack Obama chose a charter school--Capital City Public Charter School, located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, DC, just a few miles due north of the White House. Granted, he went there to sell his not-so-hot stimulus package (to second-graders, no less!). And granted, as Dana Milbank of the Washington Post writes, it was "a good day to get out of the White House." Still, these sorts of symbols and signals matter, and charter schools are certainly in need of some immediate POTUS loving... Read it here.
