Ayers for Czar of Free Skools!

Obama and Education Reform

"I would've picked Linda Darling-Hammond as Secretary of Education in an Obama administration. She's smart, honest, compassionate and courageous, and perhaps most striking, she actually knows schools and classrooms, curriculum and teaching, kids and child development. These have never counted for much as qualifications for the post, of course. Then again I would've picked Noam Chomsky for state, Naomi Klein for defense, Bernardine Dohrn for AG, Bill Fletcher for commerce, James Thindwa for labor, Barbara Ransby for human services, Paul Krugman for treasury, and Amy Goodman for press secretary. So what do I know?"

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