Education Reform in Springfield? The Performance Counts Act will be discussed in the Illinois Senate
When I started as chancellor in 2007, I never had any illusions about how though it would be to turn around a failing system like D.C.'s; the city had gone through seven chancellors in the 10 years before me. While I had to make many structural changes,... I believed the hardest thing would be changing the culture. We had to raise the expectation that people had about what was possible for our kids.
Michelle Rhee, Newsweek, December 6, 2010.
Maybe you have heard of Michelle Rhee. She is the former boss of Washington D.C.'s schools- who resigned (much like former Chicago boss Ron Huberman) after her benefactor, Adrian Fenty, lost his re-election bid as Mayor of Washington D.C. While in Washington, she closed failing schools and confronted what the Chicago Tribune editorial board called the "adults first