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Michelle Rhee to announce resignation as D.C. schools chancellor on Wednesday

Michelle Rhee to announce resignation as D.C. schools chancellor on Wednesday

Michelle Rhee to announce resignation as D.C. schools chancellor on Wednesday

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Michelle Rhee talks with Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews about about D.C.'s school system issues, and what her kids learned from the new documentary "Waiting For Superman."
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, October 13, 2010; 12:01 AM

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee will announce Wednesday that she is resigning at the end of this month, bringing an abrupt end to a tenure that drew national acclaim but that also became a central issue in an election that sent her patron, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, to defeat.

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Rhee survived three contentious years that made her a superstar of the education reform movement and one of the longest-serving school leaders in the city in two decades. Student test scores rose, and the teachers

Michelle Rhee will leave plenty of unfinished business in D.C.

Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee often said that she viewed the overhaul of the D.C. public schools as a task that would stretch across two four-year mayoral terms and that she was prepared to see it through.