(Chronicle U.)-Sen. John McCain’s chief education adviser, Lisa Graham Keegan, found herself in a tough spot Thursday when asked by the moderator of a New America Foundation forum to lay out the Republican presidential nominee’s agenda for higher education.

“I can’t do that because the Senator hasn’t done that yet,” Ms. Keegan said. “I apologize for the timing.”

“I am going to let him do that when he wants to,” Ms. Keegan said, “and simply say that he has been a long-term supporter and enthusiast about the idea that we have to connect kids in high schools immediately into their postsecondary experience, whatever that’s going to be. That transition is so fragile mostly because we are not doing a good job in the K-12 system.”

It was not like Ms. Keegan had nothing at all to say about education. The forum on John McCain and Barack Obama’s education plans focused mainly on how the two presidential candidates would improve public education from kindergarten through 12th grade, and she had plenty to say about Senator McCain’s plans to try to get more good teachers into schools through alternative certification. LINK to Article