Obama's plan to help schools

In his weekly address last Saturday, President-elect Obama said something interesting about schools...

"...my economic recovery plan will launch the most sweeping effort to modernize and upgrade school buildings that this country has ever seen. We will repair broken schools, make them energy-efficient, and put new computers in our classrooms. Because to help our children compete in a 21st century economy, we need to send them to 21st century schools."

I wonder if any of that will filter down to districts like Ridgewood?

Hey, at least he's talking about it!

You can read the entire address, which contained more encouraging talk about public works projects, by clicking here. I've often wondered why we can't bring back efforts like the WPA or Civilian Conservation Corp, which built and repaired things like bridges, roads and other public structures and created many of our national parks, by employing unemployed Americans. We have plenty of roads and structures that need repairing, not to mention school buildings...seems like a win-win.