Obama marks election anniversary by promoting education reforms in Wis.

Nov 4th, 2009 - Washington Post

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MADISON, Wis., Nov. 4 -- President Obama marked the anniversary of his election Wednesday by speaking in unusually personal terms with schoolchildren and educators in a politically friendly state, far from the partisan fray in Washington.

His decision to come to James C. Wright Middle School, an innovative and ethnically mixed charter campus, was made weeks ago. But for Obama, the day served as a respite from the Afghan war, the health-care scrum, and the post-election punditry in Washington that he disdains.

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