Over the past two years, Superintendent Scott Bailey has "gone undercover" in the district's central nutrition services facility, which produces 24,000 meals per day, and in the transportation department, where he failed the bus-driving test with flying colors.

The specter of censorship arose again earlier this year when a California high school newspaper editor wrote about an 18-year-old student who was making online sex videos.

English language arts and math are the one-two punch of the elementary school curriculum. Yet the average teaching time spent on these two areas is far from equal and balanced

School administrators now allow student-athletes with concussions to take days, weeks or even months to recuperate. In addition, athletic associations have implemented rule changes to lower the likelihood of head trauma.