Wanted: education commissioner with nerve

It’s not firing people up the way evolution is, but the question of how the Kansas State Board of Education will replace Andy Tompkins as education commissioner stands to matter far more long term to schools and schoolchildren. As the board settles on one of two finalists, perhaps this week, it should keep in mind a point that member Bill Wagnon makes in this Topeka Capital-Journal story: Like Tompkins, the next commissioner needs to be “able to tell board members when they are going off half-cocked.”
Posted by Rhonda Holman