Last night President Clinton spent a major portion of his State of the Union address promising to improve education. I am skeptical of Clinton because of the damage his appointees did here in Tempe. The US Department of Education ordered a full-scale investigation because the public high schools were teaching The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (See the Arizona Republic, July 3, 1996, available on America Online.) It took six months of litigation before US District Court Judge Stephen McNamee ruled that the charges were baseless and dismissed the case. Mark Midbon [log in to unmask]