Florida Breaking Down Walls Between K-12, Higher Ed.

Even here in Florida, most people don't know the state's secretary of education, Jim Horne. But they should.

Hired last summer by Gov. Jeb Bush, the silver-haired former legislator from outside Jacksonville is the engineer behind one of the nation's most ambitious state overhauls of education.

His job is to link all types of education, from elementary schools to state universities, into a seamless system. Then, as the state's new chief schools officer, Mr. Horne...

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