Teachers in Nevada Are So Screwed

now with a George W. Bush crony as superintendent of public instruction in the Silver State. He wrote a piece for the LVRJ, which I am not going to excerpt for obvious reasons although Righthaven is pretty much history. He rattled off a series of lies about teachers and public education. This is a man who hasn't taught in public schools for many years but was put into a position as some kind of right-wing wonk.

A person has a series of posts following the piece refuting every single lie Guthrie peddles. Strangely, the poster himself thinks Democrats are the problem. Talk about disconnect.

There is no "verified" support for Guthrie's crap, just repeats of privatizer rhetoric.

Here is Guthrie's background. Note his advanced degrees which helped him in his career but he belittles for public school teachers:

Previously, he was the first appointed senior fellow and director of education policy studies at the George W. Bush Institute, a component of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, located on the Southern Methodist University campus (SMU) in Dallas, Texas, with a concurrent appointment as professor of education policy and leadership, in the Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development at SMU.

Dr. Guthrie formerly was the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, and director of the Peabody Center for Education Policy at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. From 1999 through 2009, he served as chair of Peabody College’s Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations, the nation’s highest ranked university educational administration department. He instructed both undergraduate and graduate courses, and conducted research on education policy and finance.

He is founder and chairman of the board of Management Analysis & Planning, Inc. (MAP), a private sector management consulting firm specializing in public finance, organizational studies, and litigation support, located in Davis, California. He is the founder and president of Class Act Partners (CAP), a corporation specializing in the printed and electronic provision of research based materials for education professionals.

Previously a public school science teacher and, then a professor and Graduate School of Education Dean at the University of California, Berkeley for 27 years, Dr. Guthrie holds a B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Stanford University, and undertook postdoctoral study in public finance at Harvard. He also was a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford Brookes College, Oxford, England, and the Irving R. Melbo Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California.

Lots more:

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By the way, this piece doesn't even mention Guthrie. He just says it was a wash that while UNR hired a local administrator, Sup of the Year Morrison decided to bail.