End Homophobic Bullying? Michelle Rhee Speaks at Church Conference Despite Anti-Gay Allegations
Best known for her claim to put “Students First” and more controversially, to use student standardized test scores to evaluate teacher performance, Michelle Rhee will likely go ahead with plans to speak on Friday, August 11, 2011, at the Global Leadership Summit at Willow Creek, a conference held at a Chicago-area “mega-church.”
But claims that the church espouses or espoused anti-gay “reparative therapy” and other questionable “ex-gay” approaches to dealing with LGBT youth has caused Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz to pull out of the conference schedule, where he was also slated to speak.
Rhee’s continued participation at the conference and lack of any statement regarding the need to accept and