Education Pit Stops Along the Campaign Trail

By Drew Lindsay

A longtime foe of outcomes-based education has said she was offered a job as Pennsylvania's education chief--and turned it down.

Peg Luksik, the former 2nd-grade teacher whose 1992 campaign against the state's O.B.E. program made her famous, is running for governor of Pennsylvania this year as an independent candidate.

In an interview with a small newspaper in Johnstown, Pa., early in the campaign, she said a surrogate for Tom Ridge, the Republican candidate for governor, offered her the post of "secretary of education" if she would stay...