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Ex DC school chief takes reform message nationwide
- 01-10-2011
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By Christine Armario/Sacramento Bee
Looking back, Michelle Rhee says there are a few things she didn't do successfully during her three years as chancellor of the District of Columbia public schools. One: She failed to engage and mobilize parents, residents and community leaders who supported her ambitious education reform agenda, but were never vocal about it. "The people who were vocal were the people who were opposing," Rhee said in an interview with The Associated Press, three months after announcing her resignation. The opposition was, in fact, quite loud: Teacher unions and even groups of parents balked at her ideas to close schools, fire teachers, and get rid of tenure. (more…)
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