?California's K-12 system is a collective farm of ignorance and mediocrity, in which money must trickle down through four layers of bureaucratic sediment before it reaches the classroom. Another $700 million won't change anything, money is not the key to reform, and federal leadership is not important.?
?K. Lloyd Billingsley, Editorial Director for the Pacific Research Institute
?Why the ?Race to the Top' will change nothing in state,? Los Angeles Daily News
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Days of teaching lost in Hawaii to mandatory teacher furloughs, usually on Friday.
?Students, Fridays return to schools,??Honolulu?Star Advertiser