RE: Question 1: Who's in charge?

Until this question, "Who is in Charge?" is resolved, I doubt that very many of the other recommendations will be anything more than paper proposals. 
Placing the Governor "in charge" recognizes a reality that is not going to go away. But how much "turf" are the other entities that have exercised some control over public education going to be willing to give up? Take the issue of making all K-12 school districts unified school districts -- that has been proposed since at least as long as I have been in education (1947) and has not been accomplished yet. Why? I guess it is because the best education to provide our children is not as important as maintaining fiefdoms for established small elementary and high school school boards