Obamas Take Up Search for a School for Their Daughters

The question of where the young daughters of President-elect Barack Obama and Michelle Obama will attend school took center stage in the transition process this week.

The Obamas were in Washington to meet with President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush at the White House. During that trip, Mrs. Obama toured at least two private schools in Washington for the couple’s daughters, Malia and Sasha, who are in the 5th and 2nd grades, respectively, at the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, not far from their home.

The president-elect had said in a press conference that Mrs. Obama would be in charge of scouting out schools. On Nov. 10, she visited Georgetown Day School, an independent school founded in 1945 as one of the city’s first integrated schools, and the Sidwell Friends School, a private, Quaker school that Chelsea Clinton attended. One of Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s granddaughters...