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• Read the accompanying story, "School's Out For Riley," November/December 2000.
• Our States page includes articles and statistics on education issues from the past year for all of the states mentioned in this story.

Web Resources

• Michigan Gov. John Engler called for full freedom, full choice, and full funding in Michigan public schools in his 2000 State of the State address.
• Rod Paige, superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, provides news of issues and actions of the HISD board of education in Informed Source.
• Read "The More Choices We Have, the Better Off We're Going To Be," November 1998, an interview with Arizona Superintendent of Schools Lisa Graham Keegan, from School Reform News. Mrs. Keegan also calls for a radical overhaul of public education policies in "Time To Get Past Sloganeering," Dec. 3, 1998, from Intellectual Capital.
• Read more about Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson , including all major education initiatives he has introduced since he became govenor in 1997.
• A political biography of Roy Romer, superintendent of Los Angeles schools is available from Leigh Bureau's Speakers of Substance series.
• In "The Buying of the President 2000," an interview with Charles Lewis, Aug. 30, 1999, former Gov. Roy Romer talks candidly about the negative impact money is having on the election process.
• Delaware's Gov. Thomas Carper is stepping down after eight years as govenor to concentrate on winning the Senate race against five term U.S. Senator William Roth.
• White House domestic policy adviser Bruce Reed focuses on the issue of turning around low-performing schools during a White House press briefing, May 3, 2000.
• North Carolina Gov. James Hunt provides an overview of his ideas for education in, "A Good Start and a Good Education."

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