Slowly it began to dawn on school board trustees and education bureaucrats that immigrants were not only voters, they were also tax payers.

Of course, I have commented on what's wrong and who is responsible for it - politicians (as when President Nixon vetoed the Child Development Act in 1971) and education bureaucrats who cared more about their power and perks than about children.

For the last twenty years, we have tried to improve education while accepting the fundamental principles of a failed system guarded by education bureaucrats and teachers unions.

Moreover, integration here was the fruit of a local initiative - unusual in a region accustomed to awaiting governmental remedy - that raised the hackles of education bureaucrats in the capital of Sofia, a three-hour drive to the south.

But too many politicians and education bureaucrats have created a national obsession with testing, as if everything that's wrong with the educational system in this country would be magically fixed if we could just raise those scores.

Experts on Mexico's education system said extraordinary sums were frittered away by education bureaucrats.

"If the education bureaucrats don't like it, they can get out of here," he drawls, pointing to a door marked "Education Bureaucrats."

Among her duties, General Harris was directly involved in the layoffs of a number of longtime education bureaucrats.

Others are principals or education bureaucrats who earn part-time money.

He wrote to Nixon that he would upset the education bureaucrats and destroy "their comfortable world."