The $40-million race for California schools chief is a proxy fight in a long-running war over education
(LA Times Dodgers)

History has found few statewide races more sleepy than the campaigns for superintendent of public instruction, perhaps because the job is thin on duties that aren´t tangled in the web of control over K-12 schools. And yet, this year´s race is a $40-million blockbuster that is more costly than for...