Interim D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson accepts reform challenge
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Area residents react to the resignation of D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee.
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Washington Post Staff WriterThursday, October 14, 2010; 7:18 PM
As Chancellor Michelle A. Rheewinds down a turbulent 31/2 years in the District, she leaves in her wake a question that will be largely Kaya Henderson's to answer: Can school reform continue with the same velocity and ambition under a leadership that values consensus and collaboration over blunt force and broken crockery?
Henderson's charge from presumptive mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray (D), who wants her to be his interim - and possibly permanent - chancellor, is to make sure that the answer is yes.
"I'm totally confident we can come together and push reforms with the same urgency," she said in a phone