This Week In Education: Reform: Update On Michelle Rhee's "Students First" Effort

This Week In Education: Reform: Update On Michelle Rhee's "Students First" Effort

Reform: Update On Michelle Rhee's "Students First" Effort

by Alexander Russo

Wondering what that $100 you sent in to StudentsFirst a few months ago is doing to help fix the schools? Some tidbits in a recent USA Today story include the news that the Michelle Rhee organization is active in 11 states [my best info is the list includes FL, MI, OH, NJ, NV, ME, TN, and IN plus GA, NY, MN], features reform priorities including private school choice [eek, vouchers!] and candidate endorsements [TBD, far as I know]. There's over $1 million in funding raised [Broad but no Gates yet, far as I know], a staff of 21 and more than 220,000 members. The goal is $1 billion over five years, not annually – a much easier target to hit and a fraction of what other