Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee responds to federal investigation of alleged DCPS cheating
Federal investigators announced Monday that they found no evidence of widespread cheating in D.C. Public Schools, despite detailed allegations of systematic cheating laid out in a whistleblower complaintby former Noyes Education Campus principal Adell Cothorne.
Now former D.C. Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee has released a statement in response to the federal investigators’ findings. She doesn’t comment on Cothorne’s complaint, which alleged that school employees
Former D.C. Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. (Sarah L. Voisin - TWP)may have been driven to cheat by the promise of substantial cash bonuses.
Former D.C. Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. (Sarah L. Voisin - TWP)may have been driven to cheat by the promise of substantial cash bonuses.
Cothorne tells some details of the problems she saw at Noyes in aFrontline television documentaryto be broadcast at 10 p.m. Tuesday.
Test scores rose in Washington during Rhee’s tenure as chancellor, but the District still has among the widest achievement gaps and lowest graduation rates in the country.
Rhee is now head of Students First, the lobbying organization she