The Fall of Fenty & Rhee (and more troubling thoughts about ed reform)
Here’s an insightful new post by Diane Ravitch on the lessons to be learned from the fall of Mayor Fenty and School Chancellor Michelle Rhee in D.C. “Why Michelle Rhee and Adrian Fenty Lost.”
A striking element of the statistical fallout of the ousting of Mayor Fenty is the wide gap in support between African-American and white D.C. residents for Michelle ‘Machete’ Rhee’s brand of ed reform.
The vast majority of D.C.’s black voters gave Rhee and Fenty (who hired her) the boot. The majority of white voters supported them.
According to Ravitch, only about 5 percent of kids in D.C.’s public schools are white. (This article claims the