http://www.clipsandcomment.com/2008/09/28/transcript-david-axelrod-steve-scmidt-on-meet-the-press-september-28/ News, Politics, and Society: Ohio and the World Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:34:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.clipsandcomment.com/2008/09/28/transcript-david-axelrod-steve-scmidt-on-meet-the-press-september-28/comment-page-1/#comment-2153 An interesting weekend for education policy… « Education Debate 2008 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:07:15 +0000 http://www.clipsandcomment.com/?p=1295#comment-2153 [...] On Meet the Press, David Axelrod, Chief Strategist on the Obama campaign, took a huge swipe at the Reading First program in response to a question about how Obama would fund his policy proposals. “Obviously, we’re going to have to look at the budget,” said Axelrod, “and Senator Obama said he’s going to go through it line by line, and he’s going to get rid of things that don’t work. We have, for example…a reading program that was installed by the Bush administration that turned out to be a big boondoggle. It’s not helping any kids learn. We ought to say that doesn’t work, let’s get rid of it.”  Read the full exchange.  [...] [...] On Meet the Press, David Axelrod, Chief Strategist on the Obama campaign, took a huge swipe at the Reading First program in response to a question about how Obama would fund his policy proposals. “Obviously, we’re going to have to look at the budget,” said Axelrod, “and Senator Obama said he’s going to go through it line by line, and he’s going to get rid of things that don’t work. We have, for example…a reading program that was installed by the Bush administration that turned out to be a big boondoggle. It’s not helping any kids learn. We ought to say that doesn’t work, let’s get rid of it.”  Read the full exchange.  [...]

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