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Union ties to anti-Rhee site roil schools fight

Union ties to anti-Rhee site roil schools fight:

Union ties to anti-Rhee site roil schools fight
By Greg Toppo, USA TODAY
Updated 12h 11m ago

By Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP
The USA's school-reform conversation just got a bit nastier.

A student-advocacy group run by former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee said today that an anonymous website that for months has published sharp and sometimes personal criticisms of Rhee was created last February on a computer registered to the American Federation of Teachers, the nation's second-largest teachers union.

The union, Rhee's group says, later tried to "hide their connection to the site by laundering it through multiple