NEA recommended reading: Saul Alinsky

The National Education Association is one of Barack Obama's favorite unions (and that's saying something). Last weekend Obama announced he would be restructuring the No Child Left Behind Act around NEA concerns.

Well guess what has turned up on the NEA recommended reading list?

Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky. The book is a radical community organizer's how-to guide for tearing traditional society down. It inspired Obama as a young activist in Chicago. The NEA's website has a glowing review of Rules for Radicals, calling Alinsky "the voice of experience" who encourages "positive social change" and is "[a]n inspiration to anyone contemplating action in their community!" The book is recommended for all NEA employees.

Obama chooses the unions over school students

Barack Obama has always been a tool of the unions, from the SEIU to the AFL-CIO. His latest union cave came today when he decided to redesign the No Child Left Behind Act at the behest of the teachers' unions.

For years, teachers' unions have been complaining that NCLB tests schools and gives them a pass/fail grade based on teacher performance. (Heaven forbid.) Today, Obama announced that requirement will vanish as the president tries to broadly change America's education system. Instead, Obama is shilling out taxpayer money in the form of grants to whatever schools he chooses. In other words, spending, not standards.