CP: Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee on Charters, Vouchers and StudentsFirst as a Political Player
POSTED BY STEVEN HALE ON MON, JAN 14, 2013 AT 2:55 PM
Over at The City Paper, Andrea Zelinski sits down with former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor and StudentsFirst leader Michelle Rhee.
Rhee has been a major player in the national education debate for several years, and more recently she has gotten particularly involved in Tennessee, where she is a part-time resident. (Also, state Department of Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman is her ex-husband.)
StudentsFirst, the education lobbying and advocacy organization she started, threw around $200,000 at state and local races this election season, and will undoubtedly be involved in the coming push for a state charter authority this year.
From the interview:
What do you think about the debate of local decision-making versus having some other independent board approving schools? You’ve talked a lot about community involvement as a parent. How do you balance that?
A lot of states and jurisdictions, in order to make sure that that community is being taken into account, require a number of forums to be held, public forums