Michelle Rhee Took DCPS Financial Backers With Her and Left Taxpayers Holding the Merit Pay Bag
Huffington Post education reporter Joy Resmovits tracked down Michelle Rhee’s financiers earlier this month. They include two who’ve pulled their support for DCPS once Rhee left to go solo.
Until now, identifying Rhee’s usually anonymous donors has been largely a guessing game. But recent lobbying filings in Pennsylvania name New Jersey hedge funder and Romney backer David Tepper and the Texas-based Laura and John Arnold Foundation as among the largest donors to StudentsFirst, Rhee’s national lobbying and advocacy group that pushes for rigorous teacher evaluations and school choice. And though the filings don’t give dollar amounts, a source close to the donor community said the Arnold grant amounted to tens of millions of dollars.In addition to Arnold, an another former DCPS donor, Eli Broad, has indicated that his foundation contributed