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Michelle Rhee: Quality of Public Education ‘Dire’

Published: Friday, 22 Jun 2012 | 10:46 PM ET
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By: Bruno J. Navarro
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 The state of public education in the United States is at a critical point, and the nation cannot wait any longer to improve the system, StudentsFirst founder and CEO Michelle Rheesaid Friday.
“Ii don’t think there is any one cause for the problems we face in public education today. There are, quite frankly, a lot of opportunities,” she said on CNBC’s “The Kudlow Report.”
Rhee’s comments came the same month that a Gallup poll found that just 29 percent of respondents had a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in 
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