Obama supports bill to avert teacher layoffs
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For Rhee, there's Fenty, KJ but no shades of Gray
The two mayors who figure so prominently in Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's life--the one she's engaged to and the one she works for--both surfaced in her breakfast talk to an adoring audience of business and political leaders Thursday morning.
Toward the end of her session with the Institute for Education at the Washington Club, Rhee said that a bi-coastal marriage "was one of the pre-conditions" to accepting Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson's proposal.
"Kevin has incredibly important work to do in Sacramento, and I have equally important work here," she said. "For us, the bi-coastal thing works."
Rhee had spent most of the previous hour happily taking Q & A aboutteacher evaluations, the new labor contract and healthy school food. But she ducked one of the central questions of the mayoral campaign: would she work in a Gray administration if asked.