Eager for Spotlight, but Not if It Is on a Testing Scandal
By MICHAEL WINERIP
Published: August 21, 2011
WASHINGTON — Why won’t Michelle Rhee talk to USA Today?
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Michelle Rhee has refused to talk to USA Today reporters about a schools scandal.
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Ms. Rhee, the chancellor of the Washington public schools from 2007 to 2010, is the national symbol of the data-driven, take-no-prisoners education reform movement.
It’s hard to find a media outlet, big or small, that she hasn’t talked to. She’s been interviewed by Katie Couric, Tom Brokaw and Oprah Winfrey. She’s been featured on a Time magazine cover holding a broom (to sweep away bad teachers). She was one of the stars of the documentary “Waiting for Superman.”
These days, as director of an advocacy group she founded,