Taking presidents to school

Billionaires Eli Broad and Bill Gates announced plans to launch a new program calls the Strong American Schools Campaign to try to get presidential candidates from both parties to deal with education issues in next year's election.
“Each year more than 1 million students drop our of high school _ that's one child every 29 seconds,” Gates said. “We all must demand that candidtes..share their policies on how our countrye will offer all young people strong American schools.”
Broad said he wanted to see an election where the candidates were forced to address education issues.
“The American dream is slippin gaway and unless our leaders dramatically improve our public schools, our standard of living, our economy and our very democracy will be threatened,” Broad said.
Both men are funding the program their foundtions to take the case directly to the American public at a website.