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What Michelle Rhee has been up to - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

What Michelle Rhee has been up to - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

What Michelle Rhee has been up to

While investigators in the District are trying to determine how much cheating there was on standardized tests while Michelle Rhee ran the city’s public school system (and there are reasons to worry it was widespread), the former chancellor has been busy joining with Republican governors to strip teachers of their collective bargaining rights.

Rhee was appointed chancellor of D.C. schools in 2007 by Democratic mayor Adrian Fenty, and she just hired Hari Sevugan, former spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, to be the chief spokesman for her StudentsFirst organization.

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