This makes a great soundbite:

“As far as making it a graduation requirement,” she (Judith Billings) says of the WASL, “I think right now that’s a mistake.”

Billings has other parts to her platform, but the idea of dropping the WASL as a graduation requirement is her bombshell. It would derail, or at least seriously alter, the push toward state standards that has been the centerpiece of education policy here since 1993, when the state Legislature passed a landmark education reform bill. The notion raises the possibility that education reform could go the way of health care reform in this state—a historic initiative abandoned before it was ever implemented.

Part of me wonders if she is running just to piss off her old rival Bergeson?