Quotable:
???If you're at a hedge fund, [education reform] is definitely the hot cause???These are the kind of guys who a decade ago would have been spending their time angling to get on the junior board of the Met, the ballet.??? ??? Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform
???Scholarly Investments,??? New York Times (registration required)
Notable:
1,000:
Employees of Kansas City School District, out of a total of about 3,300, considered excess by Steve Harris, the district's new assistant superintendent for human resources. The district already laid off more than 500 employees this summer, but still aims to reduce its workforce to bring it in line with other districts of comparable size (about 17,000 students).
???KC school district has about 1,000 employees too many, official says,??? Kansas City Star