What did Barack Obama change in your school system?

Answer 1

Actually, a president cannot directly change your school system. In a democracy, the educational system comes from both the states and the federal government. So there is federal policy about certain things (it is against the law to discriminate against people based on their gender or race or religion, for example). But there is also a strong belief in letting the states supervise their own school departments. Thus, while President Obama may support a law to, let's say, increase the hours in a week when students study science, congress makes the laws and they may not pass such a law. Most of the time, educational policy will be made in your state; the governor and the legislature will decide what, if any, changes occur in your school system.