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  • CA: K-12 education - Fumbling in the governor's office

    08/25/2004 9:06:15 AM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 1 replies · 221+ views
    Sac Bee ^ | 8/25/04 | Peter Schrag
    Running California's huge, three-headed public education system is hard enough under the best of circumstances. But when the state Board of Education, which is supposed to set curricular policy and standards, is in near-revolt against the governor's office, as it was last week, it's time to sound the alarm. The main target of the revolt is Bonnie Reiss, senior adviser to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. In the view of board insiders, she has mishandled policy and often disregarded the board, which has been the prime force in establishing and defending California's academic standards and accountability system. Those standards are widely listed...
  • After missteps, Kerry refocuses his campaign

    11/23/2003 5:59:41 PM PST · by Radix · 20 replies · 161+ views
    The Boston Globe ^ | 11/23/2003 | Patrick Healy
    <p>NASHUA -- Even his advisers called the performance "sluggish" and "unpresidential": Senator John F. Kerry, at a house party here on Nov. 7, left some Democrats in the room bewildered by referring to President Bush's "job-creating tax cut," calling an abortion procedure "grisly or whatever," and offering such anti-sound bites as "the road traveled is the prologue to the road to be traveled."</p>