Rhee sets up shop downtown
An education reform group headed by Sacramento's first lady is making K Street Mall the center of its national operations.
StudentsFirst, the group founded last year by Michelle Rhee, recently signed a lease for the second floor of the historic Hale's building at Ninth and K and will move staff there in February following the completion of tenant improvements costing about $1 million.
The group has been operating out of temporary facilities in the Oak Park neighborhood and currently has about 30 staffers, many of them former colleagues of Rhee's from Washington, D.C., where she was the district's schools chancellor.
She moved here in June and married Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson in September.
Rhee's organization – which aims to raise $1 billion to
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