*Originally posted 11/1/2011 on San Jose Inside
On a macro level, hope was a common theme in the election that brought President Obama to the White House on Jan. 20, 2009. In fact, Obama wrote a book titled “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream” during the campaign of 2008. But the hope of Congress working across party lines for the greater good in a post-racial America was dashed during the negotiations on national health care and stimulus package. It’s gone downhill since then.
On a micro level, hope for a collaborative approach to improving education in San Jose was as high in the summer of 2011 as it was across America in the summer of 2008.