Rhee taking agenda for D.C.-style education reform to national stage
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Michelle Rhee, the former city schools chancellor whose reforms polarized the District, is set to release her legislative agenda for education reform.-Andrew Harnik/Examiner
Michelle Rhee plans to release her legislative agenda for education reform early this week, but whether legislators will embrace the platform remains to be seen, analysts say.
"Whatever she releases will get attention," said Neal McCluskey, associate director of the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom. "It's a lot harder to say whether it will have any on-the-ground traction as far as legislation passed."
Rhee, the former city schools chancellor whose reforms polarized the District, told
The Washington Examiner of her plans to create a national education platform through the nonprofit advocacy group she started earlier this month, StudentsFirst.She described the agenda as "the gold standard of what the [educational] environment should look like, the laws that should be in existence, to really focus on the kids."
Rhee said she had spoken with governors -- some of whom had already indicated interest in adopting the platform -- as well as mayors and
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/education/2011/01/rhees-ed-reform-platform-be-released-early-next-week#ixzz19tQIihxR
