Quotable:
"If you listen to our meetings, rarely do we talk about academics. I'm just so depressed with the fact that we don't hear anything about education. . . . There's not really the kind of aggression toward that, making sure we have high standards in each classroom." - Prince George's County, MD school board member Linda Thornton Thomas
Washington Post:??Md. Tests A Blow To Two Counties
Notable:
$2,300,000,000:??Potential cut in the Ohio state education budget due to a delay in installing slot machines at race tracks.
Columbus Dispatch:??Slots delay might cost schools $2.3 billion