Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Reforming Rhee-form

Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Reforming Rhee-form

Reforming Rhee-form

by Mike Klonsky

Some good news coming out of D.C. Mayor Gray is standing up to de-funding threats by corporate reformers. He says he's looking to reform Rhee's "reform", collaborate with union & select permanent Rhee-placement.

Gray's education transition team is recommending significant changes to the controversial IMPACT teacher evaluation tool created by interim Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson as a way to rate teachers and fire them on the basis of student standardized test scores. Henderson was Rhee's assistant. But it's looking more and more likely that she herself will replaced based on recommendations from Gray's transition team which is headed by Katherine Bradley,