Rhee criticizes teacher tenure, unions in nonprofit agenda
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Michelle Rhee, left, speaks to staff and guests as Gov. Rick Scott looks on during a visit to a South Florida charter school in Opa-locka, Fla., Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Rhee was on Scott's education transition team, and the new governor said she would continue to serve Florida as an informal education adviser. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
Former D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee released a policy agenda for nationwide education reform Monday that criticizes tenure and teachers' unions while lauding Rhee hallmarks like merit pay and Teach for America.
Although no one is particularly surprised about Rhee's agenda, plenty of education traditionalists are already fuming over the document from StudentsFirst, the nonprofit education-reform advocacy group Rhee founded last month.
Rhee's 24-page agenda includes 35 policy recommendations for state and local officials. Chiefly, she recommends that teachers' evaluations be based at least 50 percent on student test scores and that these evaluations should drive staffing decisions; that states should relax laws that cap charter schools and alternative-certificate teachin
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