Well, it appears that colossal nitwit Rod Paige is
calling it quits (or has been asked to call it quits) as the Secretary of Education. Paige, the mastermind of the deceptive manipulation of dropout data in Houston schools, the self-loathing "educator" who wishes to eviscerate public education in this nation, the voice of measure and reason who called the National Education Assocation (hence its members) a terrorist organization is riding, one can only hope, back to wherever it is he wishes to call home to live out his life in benign obscurity. The man was dangerous, and his policies have caused problems that are orders of magnitude worse than the ones he was supposedly trying to solve.
We're not dancing, though, for joy. Cresting the horizon is Margaret Spellings, another Texas wonder who seems to be one of Bush's key advisors on education and, uh hmm, "domestic policy." She's a fly-beneath-the-radar sort of individual, so who knows what pathology lurks within.