Meet your cast of liars:

  • Gov. Beverly Perdue
  • Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson
  • State Board of Education Chairman Bill Harrison
  • Bill McNeal, executive director of the N.C. Association of School Administrators
  • Glenn Kleiman, executive director of the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation

With a $400m. federal bonanza at stake, this motley crew lied to the feds about North Carolina’s charter school program. No two ways about it. And if there was a second way, the Perdue admin has clammed up about it.

If this bunch were officers in a publicly-traded company the SEC would be all over them for false and misleading statements in expectation of financial gain. Instead, it is just business as usual for what passes as our governing class in Raleigh.