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Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee today in Atlanta for Steal-your schools conference | Get Schooled

Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee today in Atlanta for Steal-your schools conference | Get Schooled:


Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee today in Atlanta for Steal-your schools conference


Michelle Rhee is in town today for daylong conference that will feature new film "Won't Back Down."
Michelle Rhee is in town today to host a screening of the new movie “Won’t Back Down,” which is a fictionalized account of a parent takeover of a failing public school via the parent trigger law. (For information on the first real-life application of a trigger law, go here.)
Rhee will be part of a panel after the movie that her husband, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, will moderate. Also on the panel will be state Rep. Alisha Thomas Morgan of Cobb, Tony Roberts of the Georgia