Blackwell 's latest dumb idea

Blackwell's latest dumb idea is getting slammed by conservatives as a useless gimmick

A school-funding plan implemented by four states and embraced by Ohio Republican gubernatorial nominee J. Kenneth Blackwell is "one of the worst ideas in education," says Rod Paige, a former education secretary in the Bush administration.

That stinging indictment was shared by a long list of Republican and Democratic leaders across the nation who came out this week condemning the so-called 65 percent solution, the key plank in Blackwell