Bill Ayers is an educator.
Professor Ayers was one of nine winning project designers in the very mainstream $50 million Annenberg Challenge program for Chicago Schools.
Barack Obama was the chairman of the Annenberg Challenge. It would have been counterproductive and unprofessional of him to refuse to work with Professor Ayers, even though William Ayers had been a radical thirty years earlier.
EDUCATION WEEK
’90s Annenberg Reform Push an Issue in Presidential Race
By Dakarai I. Aarons
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge , chaired from 1995 to 1999 by Barack Obama, is being portrayed by John McCain’s campaign as an attempt to push radicalism on schools.
The project undertaken in Chicago as part of a high-profile national initiative reflected, however, mainstream thinking among education reformers. The Annenberg Foundation’s $49.2 million grant in the city focused on three priorities: encouraging collaboration among teachers and better professional development; reducing the isolation between schools and between schools and their communities; and reducing school size to improve learning.
The other eight urban projects that received money from the foundation under the Annenberg Challenge initiative, launched in 1993 by the philanthropist Walter H....
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