Short on Money and Common Sense

Friday’s Los Angeles Times had three articles, the interconnections of which weren’t clear, but ought to have been.

One reported on the state-wide “” title=”article “>article detailed the refusal of the US Department of Education to award California a single dollar of the $4.35 billion to be given to states in the first round of grants under the administration’s “Race to the Top” reform program. The third item was an