The Obama Administration's Education Power Grab
12 April 2012
Lance Izumi, senior fellow and director of education studies at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses his Encounter Broadside, "Obama's Education Takeover," and how President Obama is leading a massive federal power grab that is disempowering local communities and parents by centralizing education policy in Washington.
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