When St. Michael's High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico, sent out a letter in February about a proposed random drug testing program for next school year, it ignited a controversy among parents at the private school. School President Marcia Sullivan and Principal Sam Govea, the driving force...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently trumpeted a new policing venture that applies the citywide CompStat system for tracking and attacking crimes to his city's public schools. He called it "quality of life improvement" and a way to "promote safety in our schools."

Of course, that depends entirely on which end of...

Through months of campaigning and 18 debates, the Republican presidential candidates have limned a range of issues -- from taxation and corporate personhood to abortion and gay marriage, even open marriage. Economic concerns have predictably loomed large, and of course we want to know if they'd launch a strike against...