Posts by Bill Lyne

The most vicious lie told by the Charter School movement is that Charters will help poor people, especially those from communities of color.  The origin of the Charter School movement in the United States is generally pegged at 1988, when American Federation of Teachers President Albert Shanker embraced the idea of University of Massachusetts Amherst…

In a move that would make Dick Cheney proud, Education Secretary Arne “Aren’t I cool because I play basketball with the president” Duncan recently convened a secret meeting of higher education bosses to help him figure out how to do to higher ed what he has done to K-12.  According to a report in Inside…

So for those readers on a tight schedule, let’s not bury the lead: The recent brouhaha over the Western Washington University Collective Bargaining Agreement is not about students, not about the state budget, not about “shared sacrifice” or any of the other pious crap that Bruce Shepard’s attackers are mouthing.  It is about a managerial…