Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of Washington, D.C., schools, today in a speech in Denver congratulated the work of the Douglas County School District in implementing a voucher program.

Rhee said before her work in Washington, her Democratic affiliation contained her support for education reform to anything that wasn't vouchers — until she started talking to mothers who felt they had no good school options for their children.

"I was not going to be the one to tell these moms that they couldn't take the money, that they should stick it out with us and hopefully in five years we could get the schools performing — even though in the meantime