DEKALB SCHOOL BOND ISSUE FAILS, AGAIN. Here's some food for thought from Reason Online: "It is a fact that some public schools are literally falling down, that others don't meet state mandated earthquake standards, and that a tremendous need for new classroom space exists. It is also a fact that the public school establishment has squandered and continues to waste billions upon billions of dollars. It is also a fact that the entrenched power within the system has no interest in any viable alternatives." The earthquake reference is local to California. The concluding sentence holds without loss of generality.