Rheeform Has Its Consequences
The canary in the education reform movement's coal mine
All teachers throughout the country need to rejoice with the recent Washington, D.C., mayoral primary as the all-but-official new Democratic mayor elect, Vincent Gray, will most likely make the firing of Michele Rhee, chancellor of the D.C. schools, one of his highest priorities. Rhee, whose picture recently was on the cover of Time magazine, had fired 240 teachers in Washington, D.C., and will now most likely also join the lines of the unemployed. Rhee had crossed the lines of professionalism when she openly campaigned in the more affluent sections of Georgetown for the outgoing mayor, Adrian Fenty. Following Fenty's defeat, she then put her foot in her mouth when she called the results of the election "devastating." It is also no secret that Gray had criticized
All teachers throughout the country need to rejoice with the recent Washington, D.C., mayoral primary as the all-but-official new Democratic mayor elect, Vincent Gray, will most likely make the firing of Michele Rhee, chancellor of the D.C. schools, one of his highest priorities. Rhee, whose picture recently was on the cover of Time magazine, had fired 240 teachers in Washington, D.C., and will now most likely also join the lines of the unemployed. Rhee had crossed the lines of professionalism when she openly campaigned in the more affluent sections of Georgetown for the outgoing mayor, Adrian Fenty. Following Fenty's defeat, she then put her foot in her mouth when she called the results of the election "devastating." It is also no secret that Gray had criticized
