Education-The Reform Agenda for 2000
Pop quiz: Guess which of the state’s 176 school districts chose a military officer as superintendent. Colorado Springs? Logical guess, but wrong. Boulder the bastion of pacifism, environmentalism and feminism has selected a nonprofessional educator, a retired Naval commander from Colorado Springs, to lead its school district. If liberal Boulder as conservative educational haven seems far-fetched, then its story of educational reform as a model for the rest of the state would appear otherworldly. But it’s not.
DEATH BY BOUNTY HUNTER
Americans were rightfully shocked recently when a gang of Phoenix bounty hunters broke into the wrong house, assaulted the inhabitants, and–when one of the victims fought back–murdered the man and his wife. The bounty hunters were allegedly attempting to capture a scofflaw, who had jumped bail. The bounty hunters were thus, in a sense, trying to make money by enforcing the law.
