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Michelle Rhee goes national with school education platform
- 01-12-2011
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By Julianne Hing/Color Lines
Witness Michelle Rhee, unleashed. Rhee’s new organization StudentsFirst launched just a month ago and today she unveiled her policy platform to overhaul failing schools. The former D.C. chancellor of schools is going national with her plan, and is intent on remaking the nation’s education system, with or without a school district to call her professional home. According to her, she may not need it. The AP reports that she’s raised $1.4 million so far and in the last 48 hours recruited 100,000 new members, including plenty of teachers and parents—though far more parents than teachers. “Several governors, in states such as Florida, New Jersey, New Mexico and Nevada have been interested in how we might join forces,” she said in an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal. “Mayors in big cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Newark want to push the envelope, too.” The AP says she wants $1 billion and 1 million members by year’s end. Here’s the platform, from Rhee’s new website: (more…)
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