State Lawmakers Seek Place at Goals 2000 Meeting

By Mark Pitsch

Washington

State legislators, who have led education-reform efforts in some states, are miffed that the U.S. Education Department has not extended them an invitation to attend the first major conference on the implementation of the Clinton Administration's reform strategy.

In a letter mailed on April 1 to governors and state school chiefs, Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley asked those officials to select a team of three to six persons to represent each state at the conference, which is...