Bush In Harlem Today

Want your chance to protest the President? Well get your you know what up to Lenox and 145th St. in Harlem to let him know how you feel. Bush is in town to talk about his failed "No Child Left Behind" program at a charter school in the neighborhood. The Harlem Village Academy is being spotlighted by the President as an example his education programs are doing their job. Unfortunately when you look at the evidence nation-wide, his mandated tests are limiting students' potential and focus on other subjects besides math and science.

From ABC7:

Mr. Bush will tour the school today, along with Education Secretary Margaret Spellings.

Local Congressman Charlie Rangel will be right alongside them. The democratic head of the powerful House of Ways and Means Committee has been highly critical of the president's program.

Rangel says it unfairly burdens school districts with obligations, without supplying the federal money needed to deliver on all those promises.

He also says the democratic congress wants to see that financial imbalance corrected.

Charlie better not give Bush a free pass up in his neighborhood. Harlem hates Bush just as much if not more so than the rest of New York. So be sure to get up there and tell (yell at) him what you think of his education policy, his Iraq policy, his economic policy, you get the picture here. It will be your only chance while he is here, because when he is dining on Park Avenue tonight, the insulation surrounding bubble boy will be super tight.