Obama’s Close Ties to Radical Terrorist Ayers Documented
Obama’s Close Ties to Radical Terrorist Ayers Documented
Further details emerge in 1990s working relationship between Obama, Ayers;
Stanley Kurtz in WSJ: “…clear [they] were partners”
Washington, DC – September 23, 2008 – New details culled from the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) reveal that Barack Obama and unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers were “partners” in a radical education program that “poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists” with “no evidence of educational improvement.”
“The records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge clearly show the Obama/Ayers relationship was deeper and more involved than Obama has ever come close to acknowledging,” said Ed Martin, American Issues Project president. “The extremist education program on which they collaborated lined the pockets of community organizers but resulted in nothing but failure for Chicago families and schoolchildren. Are these really the people we want to see setting education policy for the next four years?”
Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html), Stanley Kurtz reveals the results of his lengthy examination of the archives:
“Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just ‘a guy who lives in my neighborhood,’ and ‘not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis.’ Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC...
“The CAC's basic functioning has long been known, because its annual reports, evaluations and some board minutes were public. But the Daley archive contains additional board minutes, the Collaborative minutes, and documentation on the groups that CAC funded and rejected. The Daley archives show that Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers worked as a team to advance the CAC agenda…
“The CAC's agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers's educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism...
“CAC translated Mr. Ayers's radicalism into practice. Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with ‘external partners,’ which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn).
“Mr. Obama once conducted ‘leadership training’ seminars with Acorn, and Acorn members also served as volunteers in Mr. Obama's early campaigns. External partners like the South Shore African Village Collaborative and the Dual Language Exchange focused more on political consciousness, Afrocentricity and bilingualism than traditional education. CAC's in-house evaluators comprehensively studied the effects of its grants on the test scores of Chicago public-school students. They found no evidence of educational improvement.”
Further details emerge in 1990s working relationship between Obama, Ayers;
Stanley Kurtz in WSJ: “…clear [they] were partners”
Washington, DC – September 23, 2008 – New details culled from the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) reveal that Barack Obama and unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers were “partners” in a radical education program that “poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists” with “no evidence of educational improvement.”
“The records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge clearly show the Obama/Ayers relationship was deeper and more involved than Obama has ever come close to acknowledging,” said Ed Martin, American Issues Project president. “The extremist education program on which they collaborated lined the pockets of community organizers but resulted in nothing but failure for Chicago families and schoolchildren. Are these really the people we want to see setting education policy for the next four years?”
Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html), Stanley Kurtz reveals the results of his lengthy examination of the archives:
“Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just ‘a guy who lives in my neighborhood,’ and ‘not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis.’ Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC...
“The CAC's basic functioning has long been known, because its annual reports, evaluations and some board minutes were public. But the Daley archive contains additional board minutes, the Collaborative minutes, and documentation on the groups that CAC funded and rejected. The Daley archives show that Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers worked as a team to advance the CAC agenda…
“The CAC's agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers's educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism...
“CAC translated Mr. Ayers's radicalism into practice. Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with ‘external partners,’ which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn).
“Mr. Obama once conducted ‘leadership training’ seminars with Acorn, and Acorn members also served as volunteers in Mr. Obama's early campaigns. External partners like the South Shore African Village Collaborative and the Dual Language Exchange focused more on political consciousness, Afrocentricity and bilingualism than traditional education. CAC's in-house evaluators comprehensively studied the effects of its grants on the test scores of Chicago public-school students. They found no evidence of educational improvement.”
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