Barack Obama Daughters will enroll at Sidwell
President-elect Barack Obama and his wife have chosen private Sidwell Friends School in Washington for their two daughters. A spokeswoman for Michelle Obama, Katie McCormick Lelyveld, said the Obamas considered several schools for 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha but decided Sidwell Friends was the best fit.
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Sidwell Friends is the private Quaker school in northwest Washington that Chelsea Clinton attended.
The family also looked at Georgetown Day, which was founded in 1945 and was an early pioneer in integration.
The last presidential child to attend a public school in Washington was Amy Carter.
School renamed to honor Obama
At the behest of its students, an elementary school near New York City has been renamed after President-elect Barack Obama.
The Hempstead Union Free School District board voted unanimously to rename Ludlum Elementary School as Barack Obama Elementary School. The change went into effect immediately, school officials said Friday.
Officials said they think the school is the country’s first to be named after the first black president-elect, although similar efforts are under way elsewhere. The change will be formalized at a ceremony in December, and school officials hope Gov. David Paterson, the state’s first black governor and a Hempstead High graduate, will attend.
Coleman won’t discuss conceding
In the only outstanding U.S. Senate race aside from Georgia’s, incumbent Norm Coleman said Friday that if he knew the morning after the election that his lead over Al Franken was going to shrink significantly, he probably would not have urged Franken to concede defeat.
Coleman, a Republican, told reporters that his lead over Democrat Franken at the time was substantially larger. It dwindled to 215 votes before the lengthy hand recount was launched Thursday, and Franken’s campaign claimed in a news release Friday that it had since shrunk to double digits.
Coleman —- who told reporters he had not slept in 36 hours —- would not say directly if he would concede if the state canvassing board certifies Franken as the winner after the recount.
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