Update: More on this story in today’s Rocky Mountain News …

Here’s the “dog bites man” story of the day: lawyers for the Colorado Education Association are caught telling a series of lies to stop teachers and leaders at Denver’s Bruce Randolph School from obtaining autonomy from restrictive district red tape and union-negotiated work rules.

Still, unsurprising as the news may be, it can be thoroughly instructive to read the actual memos and see just how far the union’s legal team will go to mislead its own members.