Michelle Rhee's Splendid Run At The Wrong Target
Topics: Education Subtopics: Charter Schools and Vouchers, Economic Diversity in Higher Education, Public School Choice and Integration
Jan 14, 2011
Authors: Gordon A. MacInnes
Publisher(s): The Century Foundation
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Michelle Rhee is the face of school reform, America’s first celebrity school superintendent. She burst onto the scene in June 2007 as chancellor of District of Columbia public schools, and was gone from the position and the city by Halloween 2010—but not before she adorned the cover of Time, appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show, Charlie Rose, and other high-profile shows. She is energetic, focused, smart, outspoken, and combative. After stepping down as chancellor, she announced the launch of Students First, a web-based crusade she has started to raise $1 billion to wage war on "vested interest groups and bureaucratic structures" that "put the interests of adults over the needs of children."
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