Education should be election issue
Rarely does the resignation of a school district leader make national news.
Yet last week when Michelle Rhee announced she was stepping down as chancellor of the Washington D.C public school system, the news appeared on multiple major news outlets.
While the departure of the controversial yet successful Rhee may have negative effects on the turnaround of D.C. schools, it has fueled an important national discussion about one of the country’s biggest yet ignored issues — the need for education reform.
In her three years as chancellor, Rhee tenaciously pursued reforms that led to increased test scores and the end of decades of declining enrollment. But Rhee, an alumna of Teach for America, employed