Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee At Rally For Education Reform; But Teachers Union Leader Questions Her 'Divisive Politics' - Courant.com

Michelle Rhee Joins Parents At Rally For Education Reform; But Teachers Union Leader Questions Her 'Divisive Politics' - Courant.com:

Michelle Rhee Joins Parents At Rally For Education Reform

Teachers Union Leader Questions Her 'Divisive Politics'

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By KATHLEEN MEGAN, kmegan@courant.comThe Hartford Courant

11:31 p.m. EDT, March 14, 2012

HARTFORD—

At an education rally Wednesday on the steps of the state Capitol, Michelle Rhee, founder of an activist education reform group, said she had two "cornerstones" when she served as chancellor of schools inWashington, D.C.

"I was going to send my own two kids to the school district I was running," she said. "I was going to make every decision for the children of the district in the same way that I make decisions for my own two kids."

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"You would think that would not incite so much controversy" but it did, Rhee told the crowd of about 75, mostly parents, who clearly warmed to her message. Rhee's organization, StudentsFirst, co-sponsored Wednesday's rally with the Connecticut Parents Unionand the Maryland-based Bernard Center for Women, Politics and