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Clinton, Daschle, Geithner… The big-name speculation over President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet appointments can wait while Obama watchers focus on another critical name that surfaced on Friday: Sidwell. The Associated Press is reporting that the Obamas have chosen the Sidwell Friends School in Washington for daughters Sasha, seven years old, and Malia, 10. The private Quaker school’s alumni include former presidential offspring Chelsea Clinton and Tricia Nixon Cox, as well as House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank and a former princess of Japan. Sidwell Friends beat out another elite school, Georgetown Day School. Michelle Obama and her daughters reportedly visited both...

Don't think the First Lady-elect plans to visit any of D.C.'s public schools or even public charter schools as part of her search for a new school for her kids. But I'm sure she "supports" D.C.'s public schools in principle...for other people, that is (that would be a "no" to school vouchers and school choice for the serfs): ---- Excerpt: IN a town abuzz about all things Barack Obama, the policy wonks and government insiders have been whispering and wondering about who will be who in his incoming cabinet. But among power parents in the nation’s capital, there is yet...

Now that Barack Obama has won the Presidential election, he has some personal choices to make when he moves his family to Washington DC. One of the most important choices they will face is where to send their daughters to be educated. However, the liberal hawks have already swarmed in: Bobb and Lord have ludicrously urged Obama to send his daughters into the “trenches” of D.C.’s public school system. They write that “no private option offers President-elect Obama a personal reality check on the No Child Left Behind mandates he campaigned to reform. Public school parents see test-prep squeezing out...

Barack Obama family likely to choose private schools The Obama family are considering sending their children to one of Washington's elite private schools. By Alex Spillius in Washington Last Updated: 6:35PM GMT 11 Nov 2008 Government schools in the area are among the worst in the country, set in some of the poorest, most crime-ridden neighbourhoods. The couple have been urged to make a statement by spurning the private schools traditionally attended by children of the elite. But it appears they are inclined to go private for their girls Malia, ten and Sasha, seven, and spend about $56,000 (£33,000) a...