Reform on the ropes?
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(D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle) 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 union accepted a contract that gave the chancellor sweeping powers to fire the lowest-performing among them."
–Washington Post, Oct. 13, 2010
Washington D.C. schools chief Michele Rhee resigned on Wednesday. Her boss, Mayor Adrian Fenty
