Tuesday's Seattle Post-Intelligencer carried an abbreviated version of a New York Times article that was dishonestly biased against charter schools.

Gov. Locke signed into law last spring a charter school bill that had taken years to pass out of the legislature. The state's teachers' union put a referendum on the November ballot that is designed to overturn the law and repeal charter schools "... for good" (The voters have to approve R-55 in order to affirm the charter school law, otherwise we lose). The WEA's home page as of this writing is using the Times article as propaganda in its campaign against charter schools.

The national teacher unions are expected to pour millions of dollars (taken out of union dues skimmed from teacher salaries) into Washington state this election to try to defeat our charter school law. Expect to see more anti-charter propaganda from the teacher unions over the next couple of months. Let's hope the P-I does a more responsible job from now on separating the propaganda from the useful information.