Editorial
A charter to profit
The explosive growth of for-profit charter schools in Florida is diverting hundreds of millions of public dollars to businesses that pervert the program's intent.

Editorial
Job Corps holds out hope
A fortuitous phone call four years ago has given Pinellas County a chance to land a new Job Corps center, which would probably be built in St. Petersburg's struggling Midtown area.

Letters
Education and profit make a poor mix
Re: Public School Inc., by Kent Fischer.

Robyn E. Blumner
Divided lives
Though the women of Saudi Arabia maybe well-off, highly educated and accomplished, they must remain separate from men, and the divisions go deep.

Bill Maxwell
A renewed joy and love of teaching
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- When an official at Angelo State University telephoned me more than a year ago and asked if I had interest in being a visiting professor during the fall semester of 2002, I told him I would have to think about the proposition and would get back to him.

Martin Dyckman
All legislators should be forced to take the FCAT
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida legislators have a bad habit of acting as if they think they're at the head of the class.