William McKenzie: How Obama can help in Mexico

This opinion piece shows how our present administration would be helping our country if they help Mexico and its schools. Our two countries are very interconnected. DP

By William McKenzie

Yes, Barack Obama and Arne Duncan have more to worry about than schools in some other country, like Mexico. The president has an economy to revive and foreign wars; his education secretary must decide how to spend $100 billion in stimulus money. (Why so much went to education beats me, but it did.)

Nevertheless, presidents and their teams get paid to worry about more than one thing at a time. And Obama and Duncan have strategic reasons to work with Mexico on its schools.

What happens in our neighbor's classrooms impacts schools in Dallas, Chicago and the many other places that attract Mexican immigrants. And what happens in Mexico's schools is one way we'll (finally) resolve this interminable immigration debate and maybe even give Mexican teens an alternative to the drug trade.
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