Quotable:
"The thing that concerned me most about it was it seemed like a direct channel from the president of the United States into the classroom, to my child...I don't want our schools turned over to some socialist movement."-??Brett Curtiss, parent
NYT:??Some Parents Oppose Obama School Speech
Notable:
$30,000,000:??Cost of a new Chicago plan to prevent shooting deaths by providing special programming for the 1200 students who, according to an algorithm, are the likely to become gunshot victims.