Good old Divisive Michelle Rhee Strikes again : Blocking preschool project funding doesn't put students first

Editorial: Blocking preschool project funding doesn't put students first:

Editorial: Blocking preschool project funding doesn't put students first

When national school reform movement leader Michelle Rhee visited with Post-Dispatch editors and reporters last week, she told us that she never had met state Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield.

Ms. Cunningham has been leading the school reform charge at the Missouri Capitol. Ms. Rhee's group, StudentsFirst, added some national heft, and money, to that debate when the organization set up a Missouri chapter. And yet Ms. Rhee, who is advocating for many of the same solutions to poor public school performance, hasn't met with Ms. Cunningham.

They should meet. And Ms. Cunningham should ask Ms. Rhee what she thinks about early childhood education.

She'd get an earful.

Ms. Rhee rightly believes that increasing access to quality early childhood education is one of the most significant steps urban school districts can take to

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