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
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