Jose Rico will lead Obama's education efforts for Hispanics

Jose Rico is the new "executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics." He was named to the post on Dec. 7, 2011, to assist President Obama's efforts to improve the academic achievement of Hispanic students. He has been in the administration as an advisor since April 2009, and most recently served as the White House Initiative's deputy director since Feb. 1, 2010. He has worked for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant Rights and New Leaders for new Schools program. He is a disciple of Mike Klonsky who created the small schools movement. Rico was a principal at Multicultural Arts High School for awhile in Chicago in this movement, 75% Hispanic and 25% black, and failed. Or rather his school did--very poor rating. Rico has worked with La Raza, a racist organization promoting hyper-loyalty to Mexico and which advocates taking over a number of southwestern states.

Mike Klonsky is one of the reasons I won't contribute to the funds appeals at the University of Illinois. The other reason is Bill Ayers. These characters have never apologized or done jail time for their anti-American activities in the 1960s-1970s. According to Wikipedia (not always the finest source, but certainly the quickest) "The Communist Party (Marxist–Leninist)'s predecessor organization, the October League (Marxist-Leninist), was founded in 1971 by several local groups, many of which had grown out of the radical student organization Students for a Democratic Society when SDS split apart in 1969. Michael Klonsky, who had been a national leader in SDS in the late 1960s, was the main leader of the CP(M-L)."

If Rico had needed Senate approval instead of appointment by presidential fiat he wouldn't have passed the sniff test, but recently Obama has decided to by-pass Congress on virtually everything. Even the lefties are raising their eyebrows, knowing it's a bad precedent, and the next president could be a Republican and "do unto others" as they have done to you.