Michelle Rhee in The City of Nothing to Lose
Some fairly odd musings in Philadelphia these days as former District of Columbia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is spending quite a bit of time in Ill-town these days. Whispers sound off about Rhee, the controversial and fiery school head who led the D.C. public school system during Mayor Adrian Fenty’s (D-D.C.) tumultuous term, going to Philly and filling in for the recently ousted schools chief Arlene Ackerman.
We’d like to see how that turns out.
Take one outspoken, belligerent and ill-tempered Korean American woman who is considered the spokesperson of the “school reform” movement and put her in the rough-and-tumble working class political meat cleaver that is Philadelphia and see what you get. True: Philly public schools are like prisons (yours truly can personally attest), but not certain if an acerbic and
