BARACK OBAMA DAUGHTERS SASHA & MALIA ATTEND SIDEWELL FRIENDS SCHOOL | LONG ISLAND SCHOOL RENAMED FOR BARACK OBAMA

Barack and Michelle Obama have chosen Sidwell Friends School for their two daughters. The private Quaker school is the same institution Chelsea Clinton attended. (Nov. 21)

President Barack Obama's two beautiful daughters, Sasha & Malia Obama are going to attend the upscale private Sidwell friends school. This is great news.

The Insider" has learned that Sasha and Malia Obama will study at the same private school another famous First Daughter once attended!

Michelle Obama's rep tells us that Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, are off to Sidwell Friends School -- the same den of knowledge Chelsea Clinton went to when her father Bill was prez.

"A number of great schools were considered," Michelle's rep tells us. "In the end, the Obamas selected the school that was the best fit for what their daughters need right now." source

L.I. BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL

This is a wonderful trend. School children petitioned to have the name of their school changed.

NY School Changes Name to Honor Obama

Like Barack Obama's campaign, the plan to rename a Hempstead school after the president-elect was "a remarkable grassroots approach," the district superintendent said Friday.

At a meeting Thursday night, the five-member Hempstead school board voted unanimously to rename one of its schools Barack Obama Elementary School, said Superintendent Joseph Laria.

The change was effective immediately, although the district does not have a new sign yet. The school, formerly called Ludlum Elementary School, is on William Street in Hempstead.

School staff and students, who participated in mock presidential and vice presidential debates before the Nov. 4 election, initiated the request to rename the school, Laria said. The move could herald a name wave -- schools, streets, parks, people -- following Obama's historic rise to the presidency.

The five-member board passed the resolution unanimously: "Whereas ... the students did a wonderful job of carrying out their tasks and demonstrating their patriotism at an early age ...now be it resolved that the (board members) proudly rename the Ludlum Elementary School as the Barack Obama Elementary School."

The new name will appear on a sign in front of the building and on stationery, "hopefully before Christmas," at a cost of several thousand dollars to the district, Laria said.

The change will be formalized at a ceremony sometime in December. School officials are hoping Gov. David Paterson can attend. The state's first black governor graduated from Hempstead High School. source