"When elephants fight," goes the saying, "only the grass gets trampled." So here's a warning to 58,000 D.C. public school students: Run for cover. The city's newly elected young bulls are about to butt heads over governance of the public school system. Such fights have occurred before. But when they happen, public education usually takes a pounding.... -
School Struggle Out of an Old Playbook
"When elephants fight," goes the saying, "only the grass gets trampled." So here's a warning to 58,000 D.C. public school students: Run for cover. The city's newly elected young bulls are about to butt heads over governance of the public school system. Such fights have occurred before. But when they happen, public education usually takes a pounding....-
By Colbert I. King