The New York Sun: Rod Paige Warns of a ‘Death Grip’ by Unions
President Bush’s first-term education secretary, Rod Paige, is sitting in his office on the 75th floor of the Empire State Building, the leather of his black cowboy boots creaking beneath the cuffs of his pinstriped suit, and talking about the “death grip,” the “stranglehold,” that teachers’ unions have on public education in America.