The Brookings Institution has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to create a "National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education." According to The Washington Post, the commission will be managed by Paul Hill and Tom Loveless, and will tackle issues surrounding school choice such as how it affects school quality and student learning and whether it affects poor and minority access to strong public schools. (Noted in "The Ideas Industry," by Richard Morin and Claudia Deane, September 11, 2001, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/fedpage/columns/ideasindustry/A7050-2001Sep10.html)
