Articles written by Pat William

Pat William, Political Opinion|Oct 23, 2013

The Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John Boehner and I are friends. We have seldom visited since I left the Congress in 1997, but during John’s first years in the House I was the chairman of an education committee of which he was a member. John, despite our political differences, was attentive, engaged, and always considering fresh ways, as he saw it, to improve the nation’s schools. I liked him and still do – although now I am troubled by the policy and political muddle in which he has been cast. It is also disap...