John McCain's education rodeo

Michael J. Petrilli

4.15.2008

Senator McCain's wife Cindy was a teacher and a "rodeo queen." One of his key education advisors, Lisa Graham Keegan, was state superintendent and a rodeo star. A coincidence?

President, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Michael J. Petrilli is president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, executive editor of Education Next, editor in chief of the…