News in Brief: A State Capitals Roundup
Michigan Taps Noneducator
To be State Schools Chief
The Michigan board of education has chosen Thomas D. Watkins Jr., a former head of the state's mental-health department, to succeed state Superintendent of Public Instruction Arthur E. Ellis.
Mr. Watkins, 47, has served since 1996 as the executive director of the Economic Council of Palm Beach County, Fla., an association of corporate leaders in that county. In that capacity, he also served as the head of a business-backed education foundation...
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