Obama's picks raise questions

After leaving the White House Rahm Emanuel took a job with an investment banking firm and in two short years amassed a fortune of more that $16 million.

Wow! Can anyone tell us how a novice investment banker could do that?

I have heard it reported that the average eighth-grader in the Chicago school system can only read at about 15 percent of the national average.

If this is true, does it bode well for reading, writing and arithmetic under the new Education Secretary?

James A. Wagner

Barrington