Education 'Change Agent' Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee: The Left Connection
By M. Catharine Evans and Ann Kane
Who would have thought the ubiquitous education superstar Michelle Rhee would be sitting next to Andy Stern on the board of the Broad Foundation? Yes, that's right. The Republican governors' siren and CEO of StudentsFirst works alongside the former SEIU leader, who's visited the White House more than anyone else in the past four years and who said "workers of the world, unite" back in 2007.
Stern is the same guy who called the left-leaning former KB Homes executive Eli Broad his "favorite billionaire" in 2005 when the union elites and progressive business owners got together to seriously implement their fundamental transformation of the educational system. Broad is one of Rhee's major investors and once called her the newest exciting change agent.
But you see, no one (except us) on the conservative side appears to be getting the con game going on with Rhee and Broad and, of course, the Obama regime. At the 2008 Hofstra University presidential debate, then-Senator Obama gave a shout-out to newly appointed D.C. Chancellor Rhee as a "wonderful new superintendent who's working very hard." Now, Rhee's name pops up on top of the list for possible replacements if Arne Duncan decides to step down.
Why have so few vetted a woman who has followed Obama's educational game plan to the letter? Does no one care that her own non-
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