Defeat of D.C. mayor could bring schools chancellor to California
Louis Freedberg/California Watch
With the defeat of Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty in the Democratic primary this week, his highly controversial schools chancellor Michelle Rhee is likely to be on the job market in a few months when Vincent Gray, Fenty's certain successor, takes office. It would make sense for her to find a job in California, because that is where her fiance, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson resides, and one in eight children in the nation go to school. There are sure to be no shortage of job offers for the best known school superintendent in America who made it to the cover of Time magazine (one that infuriated many in the district, and beyond). (more…)
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