ABSTRACT
Moreover, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of A Nation at Risk report, the bipartisan group Strong American Schools said the reason why most of the report's thirty-eight recommendations haven't been adopted is simple: politics. The politics of education has been the single biggest barrier to substantive change in education. The politics of education is killing our children. On a national level, the partisanship on every major policy issue in America has infected our education policy-making with poisonous results. In 2013, former Clinton press secretary Mike McCurry gave a keynote address at the annual educational choice summit hosted by the American Federation for Children (AFC). McCurry views educational choice as a way to take the partisanship out of politics and get our leaders to act with more aspiration and less parochialism. In that regard, one of the best ways to get the politics out of education is for our political leaders to show leadership in doing so.
