MORE ON REGIONAL MAGNET SCHOOLS: Excerpts from an email that arrived today from Piet Van Lier of Catalyst Cleveland:

...I noticed your comments regarding Frank Jackson's Op-Ed piece, which included the idea of regional magnet schools. For more information on that issue, you may want to read the November issue of Catalyst Cleveland. In it, we explore the concept of economic integration of public schools, which includes the idea of regional magnet schools: http://www.catalyst-cleveland.org/11-04/1104toc.htm

...In addition to Frank Jackson's mention, our work on this issue also sparked a story in the Free Times last November, and we recently had a forum, organized in partnership with CSU, about economic integration.