Calif. Democrats Offer Fast-Track Plan To Rewrite School Code

By Lonnie Harp

California Republicans who finally were cruising along toward their goal of streamlining the state's education code have hit a bump in the road: Top Democrats recently suggested that the discussion move to a faster track.

The debate over the future of California's education code has been marked by fits and starts since Gov. Pete Wilson, a Republican, proposed the idea in his State of the State speech earlier this year.

Shortly after promising to rewrite the 11-volume code, the Governor's staff suggested that the job might be more vexing than first imagined and that a wholesale...