Summit Slated For Governors, Corporations

By Drew Lindsay

The nation's governors and business leaders will convene in the spring for an education summit organized by two forceful advocates for wholesale change in public schools.

Wisconsin Gov. Tommy G. Thompson and Louis V. Gerstner Jr., the chairman and chief executive of ibm, issued invitations late last week to the 50 governors, who will each choose one business executive to attend. The summit will be at the International Business Machines' conference center in Palisades, N.Y., on March 26 and 27.

The meeting will mark the first time since the 1989 national education summit in Charlottesville, Va., that the nation's governors have gathered with the sole purpose...