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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Has One Jeb Bush’s Chiefs for Change Been Implicated in Michelle Rhee’s DC Cover-Up? | Scathing Purple Musings

Has One Jeb Bush’s Chiefs for Change Been Implicated in Michelle Rhee’s DC Cover-Up? | Scathing Purple Musings:


Has One Jeb Bush’s Chiefs for Change Been Implicated in Michelle Rhee’s DC Cover-Up?

The jig is up on Michelle Rhee. The DC test results she used as the holy writ to base her empire on were fraudulent. The adults cheated and Michelle Rhee and her Teach for America buddy Kaya Henderson covered it up.
It’s always the cover-up that gets you in the end.
All that’s left now are who else goes down as a result.
At some point the Florida media will start pointing out that and obviously star-struck then governor-elect Rick Scott showed Rhee ’s propaganda film Waiting for Superman to Florida legislators then appointed her as vice-chair of his education transition team. A few months later Scott signed the Rhee-inspired SB 736 patterned after the DC IMPACT system she imposed on DCPS schools. Where Jeb Bush failed with SB 6 all-the-while creating a political martyr in Charlie Crist, Rhee succeeded.
Now the whole thing is just one big lie, and one of Jeb Bush’s Chiefs for  Change may have been part of the cover-up. Writes Jon Morrow:
The erasures stayed buried for years. The official who had spotted the problem and urged Rhee to