Obama calls for more investment in education

eSchool News: Laying out an ambitious post-election agenda, President Barack Obama on Feb. 12 said his goal was to reignite a “rising, thriving middle class,” in part by investing more in education.

“It is our unfinished task to make sure that this government works on behalf of the many, and not just the few; that it encourages free enterprise, rewards individual initiative, and opens the doors of opportunity to every child across this great nation,” said Obama in the first State of the Union address of his second term. He vowed to invest in economic growth without adding to the deficit.

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