"Straight A's: Public Education Policy and Progress" is a biweekly newsletter that focuses on education news and events both in Washington, DC and around the country. The following articles are included in this issue: (1) It's Education, Stupid: Greenspan Stresses the Importance of Education to Improving Job Prospects, Incomes, and Living Standards; (2) Losing Our Future: New Report Finds Minority Students Face Fifty-Fifty Odds of Graduating from High School; (3) Floridians Reaffirm Support for Class-Size Amendment; (4) Laying Down the Law: Colorado Literacy Program Benefits Struggling Students; (5) Small Learning Communities Pay Off in Houston: Greater Personal Attention Leads to a Student's Success; (6) New York City to Eliminate Most Middle Schools; and (7) Brooklyn High School Teachers Fed Up with Social Promotion.