Education Secretary Arne Duncan is dangling some big grants to states that permit charter schools. Washington doesn't, and it has beat back earlier efforts to allow them, led by Jim Spady.
The Seattle Times Co. is on its way back to profitability, a glowing New York Times article reported recently, but the paper's own numbers raise doubts.
Estimates put the sale price at $30-40 million, about a $200 million loss from the 1998 purchase price. And the Seattle company apparently has to carry unfunded pension liabilities as part of the deal...
