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Michelle Rhee discusses ambitions with Bee editorial board - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

Michelle Rhee discusses ambitions with Bee editorial board - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

Michelle Rhee discusses ambitions with Bee editorial board

Michelle Rhee talked about her support for mayoral control of schools, her dislike of school district policies that require teacher layoffs be done by seniority and some of the ambitions for her new education lobbying organization during an hour-long meeting with The Sacramento Bee's editorial board this morning.

Michelle Rhee, until recently chancellor of the D.C. school system, announced her new project, StudentsFirst, on a pretaped Oprah Winfrey show aired Monday.