Taking a gamble on internet schooling.

William Bennett, the former education secretary, family-values advocate, and out-of-control gambler, is pushing Internet-based schooling. The for-profit company Bennett chairs is providing the curriculum for the California Virtual Academy of Sonoma, a publicly financed charter school that will begin online instruction this fall.

Bennett told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat that his political views didn't influence the K12 curriculum.

I'll bet you $100 it did!