MY TURN | Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee politicizing school reform
Published: Sunday, October 13, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, October 11, 2013 at 10:11 p.m.
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| THE ANN COULTER OF ED REFORM |
Recently, Michelle Rhee, president of StudentsFirst came to Birmingham for what Rhee said was an event “that brought together 150 teachers and parents for an open, frank discussion about solutions to raise student achievement in this city and around the nation.”
First of all, there are more than 30,000 students, 3,000 teachers and 55 schools in the Birmingham City School System. It is telling that only 150 people attended Rhee’s meeting. Of those in attendance, less than a third were educators. The vast majority of the crowd was bused in by Rhee’s group.
Michelle Rhee is playing a con game. Years ago, it would have been called snake oil, but Michelle Rhee calls it education reform.
The Alabama Education Association, and apparently thousands of