"I was wrong," Ms. Keegan, a speech pathologist first elected superintendent of public instruction in 1994, said in an interview.
Hill, a former junior high school principal, was elected superintendent with tea party support.
The right-wing Republican governor of Arizona was accused by the even further right-wing elected Superintendent of Arizona schools of establishing a "shadow faction of charter school operators" committed to "moving funds from traditional public schools to charter schools".
The son of a landed Irish family, Stafford began farming sheep in New Zealand (1843), was elected superintendent of Nelson province (1853) and representative from Nelson to the General Assembly (1855), and formed his first ministry in 1856.
In Idaho, Gov. C. L. Otter and the elected superintendent of public instruction, Tom Luna, both Republicans, promoted giving students laptops and requiring online courses.
Tom Luna, the elected superintendent of schools in Idaho, said Washington's oversight of education is different from health care or environmental regulations.
Tony Bennett, Indiana's elected superintendent of public instruction, told Education Week that Bush's ideas have made a lasting impression.
The state Department of Education, run by independently elected Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, estimates that about 93% of 5-year-olds attend public kindergarten in a given year, and that the cost of educating the remaining share would be some $307 million annually.
