Maybe you have not been anticipating this day as much as I have.

But I can tell you as an author that waiting for “pub date” is excruciating.

It seems like forever between the time you make the final edit and the actual appearance of the book.

I finished about June 1. And now, three and a half months later, it is here.

Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and The Danger to America’s Public Schools is available online or, I hope, at your local book store.

It should be in your local public library (if you have one), where you can read it for free.

The great news is that “Reign of Error” debuted at #251 on amazon.com its first day, and was amazon’s #1 rated book in public affairs and policy.

I was in Pittsburgh last night where local parents and teachers organized a rousing pep rally for 1,000 people. The event began with a troupe of about 20 kids masterfully drumming. Later in the program the marching band from once-celebrated Westinghouse High School arrived in uniform. They explained that they had no instruments and have had no consistent band leader for years. A reminder of how Governor Corbett has stripped Pennsylvania’s urban schools of bare necessities. Heartbreaking really. These are talented kids whose enthusiasm is trampled on by indifferent public officials.

I will be in Philadelphia tonight, where the funding situation is even worse.

On September 24, I will be in Denver, then Seattle, Sacramento, Berkeley, Palo Alto, and Los Angeles.

The book has chapters documenting (with graphs from the U.S. Department of Education website) the facts about test scores, about graduation rates, about dropout rates, about international test scores, about college graduation rates, and more.

I look forward to hearing from you when you have had a chance to read it.