"I don't know whether to vote for Fenty or Gray," a D.C. friend confided to me last week.
"Which candidate is backed by the white progressives?" I said.
"Fenty."
"Then vote for Gray."
"Why?"
I told him that contrary to what he'd heard, Michelle Rhee wasn't the savior of D.C. schools and it was nothing more than the corporatization of public education. ("If you don't trust Bill Gates to sell you an operating
