With the current State Superintendent of Schools, Kathy Cox, making the surprise announcement last month that she wouldn’t seek reelection in the fall, the race to fill her job has been thrown wide open.

Among the five candidates currently running for the post is Gwinnett County high school social studies teacher and Decatur resident, Brian Westlake.

Westlake, a Democrat, recently responded to a series of four questions posed by the AJC:

• 1. How would you manage a mandated 10 percent cut in education spending?
• 2. How will you restore public confidence in test results?
• 3. Do you support vouchers for public education?
• 4. Do you support pay for performance for teachers?

Voter registration for the 2010 fall election ends today.

In case you haven’t yet heard, state superintendent Kathy Cox was the first person to ever win the $1 million prize on “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader” last night. She’s donating all her winnings.

Now if only we picked our governor that way, she might have had a fighting chance.  As pointed out in the comments, I’m confusing Kathy with Cathy.

Oh, so many governor/elementary school kid jokes…so little time…