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Reporting as good as anything in those East coast papers -- the LA Times takes you inside Schwarzenegger's After-School All-Stars. The Democrat-leaning Times manages to wrest a mix-review spin on Schwarzenegger's executive performance out of what looks to me to be a talent for entrepreneurial alertness and adjustment which makes use of both decentralized knowledge and adaptive organizational planning.

Anyway, here's something that caught my attention:

According to associates, Schwarzenegger is frustrated that new funding for after-school programs hasn't become available despite last year's passage of Proposition 49, which he championed, as a weak economy kept state revenue from expanding by $1.5.

And so did this:

[Schwarzenegger] said he continued to believe in decentralized management — "we don't tell them what to do," he said of the foundation's affiliates. But he also said he expected more discipline from his group as it competed for scarce public funds.

"We have to now concentrate on accountability," he said. "Otherwise, we will not get the federal funding."

And one more tidbit:

By the star's account, digital education became a priority after a summer workshop co-sponsored by its New York City affiliate found, in a survey, that computers were as popular as sports with its middle-school-aged participants.

By 1998, Orlando, Fla.; Miami and Houston were operating computer camps with machines from Dell Inc. and software from Cendant Corp.