District Residents Agree, Rhee Needs to Go

District Residents Agree, Rhee Needs to Go

District Residents Agree, Rhee Needs to Go

WRITTEN BY JAMES WRIGHT - WI STAFF WRITER

THURSDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER 2010 10:56

When D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray (D) won the Sept. 14 Democratic Party mayoral primary over incumbent Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, Rhee said that the election results were "devastating for the children of Washington, D.C." Courtesy Photo The head of the District’s Public School system has become an unpopular figure in the eyes of many Washingtonians and critics have started to urge the District’s presumptive mayor-elect Vincent Gray to fire her. D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee has alienated many residents, particularly Blacks, during her three-year term as the leader of the beleaguered system. One such person is Darlene Williams, a Northeast activist and grandparent of a former D.C. school student. "Michelle Rhee needs to be gone," Williams, 51, and a resident of Northeast, said. "People want her out. She has done nothing good for Black kids." Williams has received attention from national publications because her grandson, Tavon Wilson, is a