Thursday, February 2, 2012

RheeFirst! » Sacramento protest: Rhee represents all that is bad with the education reform movement

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Sacramento protest: Rhee represents all that is bad with the education reform movement


Photo credit: Sacramento News and Review

Written by Nick Miller for the Sacramento News and Review. Read the entire article here.
Mayor Kevin Johnson and his wife, Michelle Rhee, played a hometown gig last Wednesday night. But groupies didn’t cheer the couple at the venue. Instead, some 40 silent protesters, wearing masking tape over their mouths and holding anti-Rhee signs, picketed the education event outside

…Protesters like Kate Lenox were critical—she called the event a “sort of a fake, an Astroturf event for an