Next secretary of education

While wing-nut Phyllis Schlafly predicts that Bill Ayers will be the next secretary of education under President Obama, other nut-bags say no—it’s Homeland Security for Bill. The DFER hedge-fund Democrats are praying for a pro-voucher type like Michelle Rhee. New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman would be a good pick. He’s one of the architects and main backers of the Smaller Learning Communities Initiative. The entire Chicago school reform and charter school crowd already has their bags packed, ready to take staff jobs in D.C. when homey and fellow Harvard alum Arne Duncan is chosen. But I hope they haven’t plopped down the security deposits on their apartments yet.

My prediction is Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, a middle-of-the-road Democrat who’s made education funding her biggest priority as governor. Sebelius was recently appointed to a four-year term on the National Assessment Governing Board by Sec. Spellings and is a strong public school advocate. She led the battle against her own state school board (called them “an embarrassment”) over their support for teaching creationism in the state's public schools.

I guess I’ll have to write her in on the PREAPrez poll.