Jersey Jazzman: St. Michelle's Tarnished Halo

Jersey Jazzman: St. Michelle's Tarnished Halo:

St. Michelle's Tarnished Halo

by Duke

Oh, dear:

One distraction that Michelle Rhee could do without as she evangelizes around the country for school reform is any whiff of a cheating scandal in the public-school system she led in Washington, D.C.

But that topic is very much alive, thanks to an ongoing investigation by federal officials and the D.C. inspector general into unusual erasures on tests and student academic gains that seemed too good to be true—but that Rhee insists were real

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On the D.C. cheating suspicions, Rhee walks a tricky line: while welcoming the investigation requested by her successor, she admits to no mistake in her own failure to seek that probe when she was chancellor. Rhee departed the District a year ago.

“Were there more steps that could have been taken? Sure. But I feel very, very