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Joy Resmovits: Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee's Regrets, School Voucher Fight: Ed Today

Joy Resmovits:  Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee's Regrets, School Voucher Fight: Ed Today:


 Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee's Regrets, School Voucher Fight: Ed Today

Posted: 02/04/2013 8:06 am

Rhee-grets, She Has A Few? Former Washington, D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee is out with a new memoir this week (called "Radical"), and she's making the talk show rounds to promote it. Yesterday, she told George Stephanopolous on "This Week" that maybe she shouldn't have fired that principal on TV. "My style is very deliberative and very focused on doing what's right for kids.  And so I wouldn't change that so much," Rhee said.  "Should I have fired ineffective principals?  Absolutely.  Should I have done so on national TV?  Probably not." Here's a Times interview, in which she says sheregrets initially not taking test security questions seriously. Also, Rhee is scheduled to be on The Daily Show tonight, so that should be fun!
Voucher Wars? On Friday, Rep. John Kline (R-Minn.) led a group of three House Republicans in