That pleased Michelle Rhee and Jeb Bush’s education groups, both of which issued press releases praising the proposed legislation. The “parent empowerment” bill — modeled on similar legislation in California — would allow a majority of parents to tell...

Instead, the Governor continues to demonize those who devote their careers to educating our children. Now we learn that on March 14th, 2012 Governor Dannel Malloy will join radical "education reformer" Michelle Rhee and the CT Parent's Union (a new...

Making real changes in how we run our public schools means plenty of folks won’t be happy. If you enjoyed this article, please consider sharing it! All superintendents are huscksters. Their average tenure is under 4 years as they move on to bigger and...

A perfect real-life example of this fallacy presented itself to me at the Michelle Rhee protest in Oakland last week. Most elements of the corporate education reform agenda, of which Rhee is the leading proponent, rest on this kind of black-and-white...

Mediation Board who, in 2010, adopted a new rule governing elections for railroad and airline workers seeking to unionize. Such workers are covered by the 1935 Railway Labor Act (RLA), rather than the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) that covers most...

Nov. 21, 2011, was supposed to be a big day for Education Austin. The union was expecting to celebrate the start of another four years representing Austin ISD workers in their dealings with the administration. Instead, Superintendent Meria Carstarphen...