STRIKE ENTERS WEEK TWO--Ohio Education Association Professional Staff Union members Gary Carlile, left, of the Lima office, and Jeff Kestner, from Vermillion, picket the main office of the Ohio Education Association, in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, Sept. 8, 1997. The strike by union members against the teachers union has entered its second week.

EDUCATION AT THE CROSSROADS--The Hon. Lisa Graham Keegan, Superintendent of Public Education, State of Arizona, gestures as she speaks at a symposium on school finance and reform sponsored by the Buckeye Institute For Publc Policy Solutions, in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, Sept. 8, 1997. Joining the panel are: from left, Dr Bill Fischel of Dartmouth College, Allan Parker of the Texas Justice Foundation, Clark Durant of the Michigan State Board of Education, and Dr. Genia Toma of the University of Kentucky.