The Word: Education officials ban bake sales in NYC
One way you can fix the problem of over-active school bureaucrats is to allow parents to choose which school their child goes to and empower schools, not education bureaucrats, to make these types of decisions.
This podcast features the song "Voice from Space" by Butterfly Tea (http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/Butterfly_Tea), available under a Creative Commons Attribution, Share Alike license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en).