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Keep Michelle Rhee in D.C.'s schools

POSTED AT 07:15 PM ON SEP. 27, 2010 | PRINT | EMAIL | EDITOR | SHARE | COMMENTS (15) | RECOMMEND ()

WE SAY D.C. should keep Chancellor Rhee at all costs or risk further downturns

After Michelle Rhee was named the Chancellor of Washington D.C. public schools by Mayor Adrian Fenty in 2007, she began a complete overhaul of D.C.’s educational system.

Rhee began this task with the full backing of Fenty, and her vision could not have come sooner to a school district that is one of the nation’s worst.

In just over three years, Rhee has managed to close schools that weren’t performing well, expand charter schools that were, raise students’ test scores, breathe new life into special