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Thin Coffers, Ambitious Education Agendas Put New Leaders on the Spot

Education Week/San Antonio Press

January 15, 2011

The challenge: how to reconcile sluggish revenues and calls for slimmed-down government with a long list of ambitious-and potentially costly-education overhaul projects already in progress. "This is education's �General Motors' moment," says Bob Wise, a former Democratic governor of West Virginia, as K-12 systems across the country push to produce a higher-quality product while clamping down on costs. New governors and state legislators also must decide how to deal with initiatives that were launched or agreed to by their predecessors-and which may or may not dovetail with their own educational and political agendas.

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