Voters accepted Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown's tax-hike measure, but it's pass time for lawmakers and education officials to think outside their conventional box and look at school models that deliver high performance at a lower cost. Luckily for California, such schools are already up and running and succeeding in the state.
In the presidential debates and in recent interviews, it’s clear that Mitt Romney realizes something that President Obama can’t seem to fathom: the federal government is not the nation’s school board.