I asked Florida state GOP press secretary Katie Gordon for comment from chairman Jim Greer about the latest developments regarding President Obama’s upcoming speech to schoolchildren — namely the decision of the Department of Education to revise a section of its materials about how children could “help the president,” to remove that phrase.
Gordon e-mailed me back: “He [Greer] is still concerned about what the President will say, but the White House revisions shows that President Obama now knows that parents across this country will be watching and listening carefully to his speech to our children.”
The materials now more clearly ask students “how they can achieve their shortâterm and longâterm education goals,” which was what the students were supposed to help Obama with before. The new version is now free of any potential political context from that section.
