Rhee Lashes Out After DC Testing Scandal Chips Away at Her Credibility
By David Dayen
If the world were as based on merit as Michelle Rhee and her cadres like to say they want to construct schools to operate, she would have no credibility left, and wouldn’t be able to reach by phone any of her rich friends bankrolling her reform agenda. Rhee responded to the serious allegations in USA Today about cheating on standardized tests at DC public schools with the typical approach of a guilty politician: questioning the motives of an opposition uninvolved in the investigation and refusing to engage with the issue.
“It isn’t surprising,” Rhee said in a statement Monday, “that the enemies of school reform once again are trying to argue that the Earth is flat and that there is no way test scores could have improved … unless someone cheated.”