Political battles still raging over Michelle Rhee and 'Erasuregate' controversy
By Beth Hawkins | Published Fri, Apr 8 2011 8:39 am
Remember those hanging chads? There’s a fresh political battle raging that involves eraser marks.
No kidding — nope.
On Thursday, the Huffington Post carried a piece by Michelle Rhee in which the former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor attempted to address a controversy that has divided the education world. Auditors, she wrote, found erasure marks on student tests during her tenure to be within normal ranges.
Who cares? Stick with me a moment, because lots of people do.
Rhee, in case you’ve been hiding under a rock, rose to prominence as the swashbuckling change agent who tried to overhaul schools in the
