Michelle Rhee invites teachers union reps to new town halls
Michelle Rhee wants to have a candid conversation with her fiercest critics.
The outspoken education reformer will host a series of national town hall meetings beginning in September, according to invitations obtained by POLITICO.
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And she’s asking local teachers union leaders and activists — long her most vocal opponents — to be a part of each event.
According to the invitations sent Wednesday, Rhee’s goal is to bring teachers and their union representatives into the wider conversation about American education reform.
“Teachers’ voices are vital to the conversation about how to improve our national education system,” Rhee wrote to supporters. “Unfortunately, the dialogue around public education has become too often polarized, with extreme rhetoric and personal attacks overshadowing what’s important: getting all of our country’s kids into great schools with great teachers.”
Rhee will have company on her cross-country tour, which includes stops in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Birmingham, Ala.,Steve Perry, who founded and runs the Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Connecticut and former Washington Teachers’ Union President George Parker will both join her at each event.
Also invited — but not yet confirmed: the brass from teachers unions city or state chapters, as
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