Obama: Let's Modernize Our Schools

In his weekly YouTube address this week President Obama outlined his economic recovery infrastructure building plans, which included a major statement about our schools. Regular readers will know that I am a big fan of this as I have been advocating for our schools to "go green" in a coordinated manner for a long time as well as upgrade our technological infrastructure. This is just flat a good idea and it is good to see Obama helping to stimulate our economy by helping to ensure our future.

Here is the relevant section:

Third, my economic recovery plan will launch the most sweeping effort to modernize and upgrade school buildings that this country has ever seen. We will repair broken schools, make them energy-efficient, and put new computers in our classrooms. Because to help our children compete in a 21st century economy, we need to send them to 21st century schools.

As we renew our schools and highways, we’ll also renew our information superhighway. It is unacceptable that the United States ranks 15th in the world in broadband adoption. Here, in the country that invented the internet, every child should have the chance to get online, and they’ll get that chance when I’m President – because that’s how we’ll strengthen America’s competitiveness in the world.

Here is the weekly address in full:

Your Weekly Address from the President-Elect @ Yahoo! Video