Who Needs an Education Secretary? Maybe Not California
Expect lots of announcements in the coming weeks from newly elected governors naming their handpicked education secretaries, usually described as impassioned champions of "reform" (meaning the policies favored by their bosses).
New Mexico's governor named one last week. Iowa's gov picked his own today.
But that post-election tradition may not play out in California. That's because Democratic Gov.-elect Jerry Brown, who reclaimed the job he held a couple decades ago, promised during his campaign that he would eliminate the
