State Journal

Gov. Roy E. Barnes will soon be evicted from the Georgia governor's office, but he can keep his job as the chairman of the Education Commission of the States—if he wants to.

The Democrat, who lost his re-election bid in an upset on Nov. 5, was elected chairman of the Denver-based ECS this past summer by a vote of the group's members. In fact, he became the first chairman to serve under new rules that turned the position into a two-year job, instead...