Meet Missouri’s newest education lobbyist- Michelle Rhee
Written by Randy Turner for the Turner Report. Read the entire post here.
“Some of those who have been most responsible for those lies, former head of Washington D. C. Schools Michelle Rhee and her crew at Students First have worked quickly to establish a stronghold in the Show-Me State. As of Feb. 8, Ms. Rhee is a registered lobbyist here, one of seven who can legally lobby for Students First…
The irony about Students First, is that its leader is someone who has done nothing but put herself first since her dramatic entry as head of the schools in our nation’s capitol. How else can you explain the infamous Newsweek cover which showed her with a broom ready to sweep out all of the “bad teachers.”
Her time in Washington did not result in the kind of dramatic changeovers that she promises will take place in public schools that adopt her dangerous ideas. In Washington, the dramatic test improvements that took place in the schools she used as success stories appear to be the result of cheating, the same kind of cheating that is likely to become more and more prevalent in the future if standardized tests (always meant to be just one level of assessment and not the Holy Grail) are the only means through which teachers and schools are judged…
The target for Ms. Rhee and the other bullies of the so-called “reform” movement in education has always been the teachers.”
“Some of those who have been most responsible for those lies, former head of Washington D. C. Schools Michelle Rhee and her crew at Students First have worked quickly to establish a stronghold in the Show-Me State. As of Feb. 8, Ms. Rhee is a registered lobbyist here, one of seven who can legally lobby for Students First…
The irony about Students First, is that its leader is someone who has done nothing but put herself first since her dramatic entry as head of the schools in our nation’s capitol. How else can you explain the infamous Newsweek cover which showed her with a broom ready to sweep out all of the “bad teachers.”
Her time in Washington did not result in the kind of dramatic changeovers that she promises will take place in public schools that adopt her dangerous ideas. In Washington, the dramatic test improvements that took place in the schools she used as success stories appear to be the result of cheating, the same kind of cheating that is likely to become more and more prevalent in the future if standardized tests (always meant to be just one level of assessment and not the Holy Grail) are the only means through which teachers and schools are judged…
The target for Ms. Rhee and the other bullies of the so-called “reform” movement in education has always been the teachers.”
