Obama Education Speech Stresses Investments Ahead Of Budget Conference
Posted: 10/25/2013 6:16 pm EDT | Updated: 10/25/2013 6:32 pm EDT
NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama spent Friday hanging out with students at Pathways in Technology Early College High School, before telling them they're "starting something across the country" in a speech in the Brooklyn school's auditorium.
P-Tech, a new vocational school run in collaboration with IBM, goes two years beyond traditional high school and lets students graduate with an associate's degree. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, both Democrats, have praised the effort and called for the creation of more schools in its image.
Obama first mentioned the school during his 2013 State of the Union address. "What's going on at P-Tech is outstanding, and I'm excited to see it for myself," Obama told the crowd in February.
On Friday, he used his visit to the school to push for investments in education in the upcoming federal budget conference. Sequestration cuts are expected to trim $1.2
