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Three times a year, the White House chooses a hundred students for a three-month
internship. Patrick Henry, with only three hundred students, has taken between one and five of the spots in each of the past
five years—roughly the same as Georgetown. Other Patrick Henry students volunteer in the White House. Tim Goeglein,
the Administration’s liaison to the evangelical community, said that the numbers reflect the abilities of the Patrick
Henry students, who “have learned a way to integrate faith and action.” For the White House, it is also a way
to reach out to its base while building a network of young political operatives.
Of the school’s sixty-one graduates through the class of 2004,
two have jobs in the White House; six are on the staffs of conservative members of Congress; eight are in federal agencies;
and one helps Senator Rick Santorum, of Pennsylvania, and his wife, Karen, homeschool their six children.
Two are at the F.B.I., and another worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority, in Iraq. Last year, the college began offering
a major in strategic intelligence; the students learn the history of covert operations and take internships that allow them
to graduate with a security clearance... Hanna Rosin, The New Yorker, Jun 27, 2005
Santorum, "We liked the idea so much that we have some of our children enrolled in some of these public cyberschools
- until the increasingly uncivil world of partisan politics extended its venom into our home and into our children's
education." It Takes a Village
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