Friday, June 1, 2012

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Gov. Walker called on Rhee to help him fight Wisc. teachers

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Gov. Walker called on Rhee to help him fight Wisc. teachers:


Gov. Walker called on Rhee to help him fight Wisc. teachers


Soon after Wisconsin's Gov. Scott Walker moved to crush the state's teacher unions, he called on Michelle Rhee for help. While she declined to actually come to Wisconsin and stand behind Walker in the face of angry teacher protests, Rhee did come to Walker's rescue on more than one occasion.

Mother Jones writer Andy Kroll gleaned this from some of Walker's newly released internal emails.
Rhee did defend some of Walker's anti-union measures twice on television soon after he announced his plan. "The move to try to limit what [public-sector unions] bargain over is an