Rather than endorsing such a compromise, Obama called on the F.C.C. to "answer the call of almost four million public comments, and implement the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality".
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, that list (which included Harvard Law School, where I teach) has grown in the past two years, from fifty-five schools to almost two hundred and thirty, public and private, large and small, from all regions of the country.
That means that for the entire LAUSD, almost four hundred public middle and high schools, there will be only eight counselors available to deal with the gangs and violence on campus.
The report looked at study habits and campus involvement of 65,300 students at almost a hundred public and private two-year colleges.
"That is why today, I am asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to answer the call of almost 4 million public comments, and implement the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality".
According to the UCLA Civil Rights Project, during the 2011-12 school year, almost 3.5 million public school students were suspended at least once.
However, the idea of triggering a global conversation around the value that arts and culture enrichment experiences offer to the almost 50 million public school students in the United States -- experiences that are currently the first to go when budgets are cut -- is arguably more valuable in the long run than the needs of my local constituency.
Last week in Ethiopia, I joined almost a thousand public health practitioners from all over the world to report on the state of human health, reflected in stories and supported by data that capture in detail the global battle against preventable death and disease, whether in the richest nations of Scandinavia or the poorest of the Caribbean.
My job is to hold the government to account to restore faith in politics and in our hideous Westminster system and where the public have almost zero ability to choose who their politicians actually are.
