In an Education Week commentary essay
about school boards in 2009, I wrote, «[M] y sense of things, after two stints on my local school board... is that school boards have been overtaken by the «educatocracy,» by powerful trade unions, certified specialists,
certification agencies, state and federal rule - makers and legislators, grants with strings, billion - dollar -
contractor lobbyists, textbook mega-companies, professional associations, and lawyers — the list could go on.»