Is Michelle Rhee About to Take a Lance Armstrong Like Fall From Grace?
On Tuesday America will find out if Michelle Rhee’s DC miracle was a fraud. From Washington Post reporter Emma Brown:
Student standardized-test scores at an award-winning D.C. school dropped dramatically in 2011 after the principal tightened security out of concern about possible cheating, according to a new “Frontline” television documentary to be broadcast Tuesday.
The hour-long program raises questions about whether District officials have adequately investigated persistent suspicions that public school employees may have tampered with tests during the tenure of former schools chancellor Michelle A. Rhee.
Adell Cothorne was principal of the District’s Noyes Education Campus for one year, in 2010-11.