And I feel that same uncertainty you are sensing. I will always be the first one at the meeting to ask, “But where does this take us?” I too worry that many teachers, sensing a groundswell of federal action, will simply let ‘Obama’ do it. But let us not forget that it was this Department of Ed that very effectively lopped of half or more of the National Writing Project’s budget. I will tell you exactly what that meant to the connectedness of the writing project I work with–we served half the number of writing fellows this summer.