Environmentalists Join Educators in Protesting Obama Policies
The New York Times today reported that many environmentalists are expressing frustration at recent policy decisions by the Obama administration. The story carries some strong echoes of the way educators have felt for the past two years, as Secretary Duncan has extended and intensified the worst aspects of No Child Left Behind.
In the past week more than a thousand demonstrators have been arrested at the White House in protest of the administration's unclear stance on the licensing of a pipeline that would carry oil from Canadian tar sands. Even former administration staffers, and Dr. James Hansen, the head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, participated in protests and were arrested. And this concern has deepened as the White House has abandoned its plan to strengthen air pollution standards.
It is eerie how this parallels our Save Our Schools March a few weeks ago. We did not subject ourselves to