The Huffington Post: Ahead of the State of the Union, Advocates Wonder Whether Obama Forgot Public Schools

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January 27, 2014

By Joy Resmovits

President Barack Obama is widely expected to address income inequality in his 2014 State of the Union address Tuesday, and education advocates hope the nation’s schools will figure into that picture in a major way.

But despite huge racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps among public school students, many expect the president’s agenda-setting speech to focus once again on the system’s bookends: expanding preschool and making college more affordable. “I’m expecting pre-k mostly,” said Kate Tromble, legislative director for the Education Trust, a Washington, D.C. based education lobbying and advocacy firm. “He’ll just make a further call for how important it is and how we need to have it and how Congress isn’t giving him what he’s proposed.”

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