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Another reason for vouchers
In the spirit of Indiana's attempt to simplify math by legislating Pi to be equal to 3.2, California Democrats in the Assembly have just approved a bill (soon to go to the Senate) shortening textbooks to a maximum of 200 pages. I imagine that there are some school board members in Kansas who know just what should be cut.
Thanks to David Theroux for the pointer.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on June 2, 2005 at 07:01 AM in Books | Permalink
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