Clearly education reform remains a hot topic. One correspondent says that if his federal tax dollars are being spent, even if they represent only seven percent of the total, he wants acoountability for that spending. Surely the other 93 percent of spending – funded by his state and local taxes – give sufficient reason to demand accountability. So, who needs the feds?

And, the remedy isn’t to limit the loopholes and “toughen up” the reform, unless the Departent of Education is prepared to become a national school board, effectively running every school in the country.