BY RAJU CHEBIUM • COURIER-POST WASHINGTON BUREAU • OCTOBER 16, 2010
WASHINGTON — Could the nation's best-known and most controversial education reformer be headed to New Jersey?
Michelle Rhee, who recently resigned as schools chancellor in Washington, D.C., is being talked up as a potential candidate for New Jersey education commissioner or Newark school superintendent after she leaves her current job on Oct. 31.
Gov. Chris Christie is a fan of hers and Newark Mayor Cory Booker is her friend. Both have top education jobs to fill.
Right now, the official word is that Rhee isn't in the running for either job.
"We don't have any comment except to say that the governor admires what Michelle Rhee accomplished in the D.C. schools and wishes her well," Christie spokesman Michael Drewniak said in an e-mail.