State Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Jim McBide has expressed concerns to the president of the University of Woming, and the Dean of the Education College about William Ayers giving a lecture at U. W.’s education auditorium on Monday.  Ayres (pictured) is also scheduled to hold a conference call with Wyoming school principals on Tuesday.

Ayers was co-founder of a radical anti-Vietnam War group that claimed responsibility for a series of bombings.  He’s even been called a terrorist by some.

Mary Kay Hill, the director of administration for the department of education says there are about a dozen provocative education speakers in the country.  She thinks any one of them would be a better selection to speak at U. W…(Click to hear comment from Mary Kay Hill)

Hill says she doesn’t know how many principals will participate in the conference call, Meanwhile, Ayers is an education professor at the university of Illinois at Chicago.  His visit is sponsored by the privately-endowed U. W. Social Justice Research Center.