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Friday, December 16, 2011

Aaryn Belfer's take on Michelle Rhee

Aaryn Belfer's take on Michelle Rhee:

Aaryn Belfer's take on Michelle Rhee

CityBeat columnist weighs in on talk by controversial ed reformer

By Kelly Davis
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Last night, Michelle Rhee, thecontroversial former chancellor of Washington, D.C., schools, spoke at the University of San Diego to tout her new education-reform organization, Students First. Aaryn Belfer, who writes CityBeat's "Backwards & in High Heels" column and has been critical of cuts to education funding and relentless standardized testing (Aaryn's got daughter in the public-school system), was at the event and wrote up a pull-no-punches take for her blog. Read a snippet below and check out the full post here.

But what wasn’t discussed—at all, nary a breath—were the solutions for which Rhee advocates. Solutions that