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Fenty and Rhee: Was what we had here a failure to communicate? � Fred Klonsky's blog

Fenty and Rhee: Was what we had here a failure to communicate? � Fred Klonsky's blog

Fenty and Rhee: Was what we had here a failure to communicate?

After having her boss routed from the mayor’s office in DC, schools chancellor Michelle Rhee blames the people for not getting it.

Or maybe she didn’t communicate well enough.

But it just couldn’t be that she was wrong.

So, it turns out, the problem with school reforms in D.C. — which contributed to the defeat of D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty in the Democratic primary — wasn’t that some of them were punitive and nonsensical. Schools Chancellor Michelle A.