Education should be a top priority for president

Alan Borsuk:

There was a lot of consistency in federal education policy when we went from President George W. Bush to President Barack Obama four years ago. Some changes in strategy, of course, but quite similar philosophies on using federal clout to put the heat on for change all across the country.

That's one reason I doubt that there will be an abrupt shift in the overall thrust of what the feds are doing when it comes to schools, even if Mitt Romney wins Tuesday. A second reason: Romney has not espoused the blow-up-the-ed-department line of several other Republican candidates. A third: The Washington gridlock reality makes it hard to actually change the direction of things (for example, using federal policy to push school vouchers, as Romney favors).

As for Obama, he has a track record by now and, I assume, would proceed along that line.

So let's skip over the outcome of Tuesday's presidential vote and jump into the postelection period with a few questions for the president for the next four years:

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 1, 2012 5:17 PM
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