Fenty says education reform cost him re-election
Since the day after losing his re-election bid, Mayor Adrian Fenty has kept a relatively low media profile, holding only a handful of press conferences and making one national TV appearance, on an NBC-hosted "Education Nation" panel.
But Monday he taped his first one-on-one interview since the election -- a 15-minute talk with Jonathan P. Hicks, a former New York Times reporter who's now a fellow at the DuBois Bunche Center for Public Policy in New York. The interview appeared on "Urban Focus," which is available as a podcast and on cable TV in Brooklyn.
Much of the discussion revolved around education, and Fenty made the case that he was a martyr to his own education reforms -- that he paid the price for being on "the leading edge of a movement."
"If it's a war," he said, "someone's got to be at the front of the lin