PI EXCLUSIVE… RHEE NONPROFIT RAISES $8 MILLION: StudentsFirst, the education reform group founded by former D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, raised nearly $8 million in its first months of operation, according to tax documents obtained by POLITICO. The most recent tax filings, from October 2010 to July 2011, show Rhee’s group spent $143,000 on lobbying and another $1.8 million on advertising. The group also made a $100,000 grant toPartnership for Ohio’s Future, a grassroots advocacy group founded by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce to support the budget of Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, according toLinda Woggon, VP for the group. Partnership for Ohio's Future later supported the anti-union Senate Bill 5, but Woggon said that was a separate initiative.