Rhee had notice of highly-touted Principal Ryan and his suspicious high erasures before she promoted him
Michelle Rhee held Principal Wayne Ryan up as the gold standard for “radical education reform.” Her recruitment ads aimed at principals asked “Can you build a school that works from the ground up? Wayne Ryan did. Are you the next Wayne Ryan?” (see the ad here)
But even as she touted Ryan and his Noyes school in promotional ads in 2008 and 2009, Rhee had to have known that her “shining star” was flagged as showing suspiciously high erasure rates over several years By June 2010, when she promoted Ryan to instructional superintendent, a DCPS investigation that was contracted 6 months previous to examine the suspicious erasures was underway (See Ryan chronology below).
Lawyer and financial analyst, Mary Levy, established that Ryan’s promotion meant an increase of $18,170 from
