Reblogged from Diane Ravitch's blog:
My ex-husband Richard Ravitch is a brilliant man who has spent most of his life in public service. He was born during the Great Depression, and he grew up idolizing Franklin Delano Roosevelt and believing that the highest ideal was to improve the well-being of the public.
We have an informal agreement that he doesn't do education and I don't do housing, transportation or public finance.
Diane Ravitch discusses a recent report by her ex-husband, Richard Ravitch, sounding the alarm bell on how states must face and deal with budget problems.