A successful start to secondary education depends first of all on two bits of a complicated jigsaw puzzle fitting together — the school and the child.

Government-run, union-controlled education is as antiquated in 21st Century America as a mimeograph machine and as outdated as the New Deal. The entire history of this great country is choice — except in the all-important field of education, wherein one size shall fit all.

Students with a sweet tooth got their cravings satisfied — they also raised money to send one child from Uganda to school for a year.

As for-profit institutions address their own shortcomings, they must work with traditional education institutions and the federal government to achieve those improvements.