Quick Hits (3.5.12)

Don’t make “admin” your username or password, and especially not both. Bender, an alcoholic robot from the TV series Futurama, will head up the District of Columbia school board, thanks to computer gurus, who were invited to try to crack the city’s e-voting system. Once they did, they elected who they thought should be school board chair. (Tecca.com)

One is a lonely number. Joel Klein points out that only 1 percent of Republican debates for the presidential nomination have focused on education. (Washington Post)

Ching ching. State universities in California can be more costly for middle-class families than Harvard, according to net price calculator estimates. Protesters, who are in Sacramento today, blame increasing tuition costs. Education Sector analysts have been covering the college affordability issue extensively, offering new ideas and testifying in front of a Congressional committee. (San Jose Mercury News)

So long. Educators in Virginia planned a “wake” for public education over the weekend, to protest a proposal in the Senate that would phase out part of the tenure system and make it easier to fire teachers. (Fairfax News)