A weekly report from a Virginia delegate helps give some idea of why public officials have such a difficult time reforming education or reining in spending on public schools.
A reporter for the student newspaper at North Idaho College found out just how tolerant her nominally diverse campus really is when she tried to start a conservative club there last Fall.
The lack of confidence in the education establishment at the elementary, secondary and higher levels has spread well beyond the political conservatives normally associated with this attitude.
Left overlooked in the debate over illegal immigration is the degree to which it makes an already dysfunctional public school system even more chaotic.
One reason to keep an eye on what is in textbooks used by students in California’s public schools is that what is passed on by the state’s education authorities to a large degree determines what can go in courses in the rest of the country. That could also be a cause of alarm.
