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Is Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee taking over the Democratic Party? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Is Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee taking over the Democratic Party? - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:


Is Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee taking over the Democratic Party?

An Atlantic magazine article is entitled, “How Michelle Rhee Is Taking Over the Democratic Party.”


Is she really?
The story says that “there are signs that Rhee’s persona non grata status in her party is beginning to wane.”
Persona non grata status in the Democratic Party? When was that?
Rhee was hired by a Democratic mayor, Adrian Fenty, in Washington, D.C,. in 2007 as chancellor of the public school system. In 2010, when Fenty was beaten in the city’s Democratic primary, the Democratic U.S. secretary of education, Arne Duncan, said he wanted her to stay in her job. She didn’t, but not for lack of trying on Duncan’s part.
The real issue here is how much the Democrats have acted like Republicans when it comes to school reform and efforts to privatiz


10 things never to do to students

Here’s a list of things that parents, teachers and others should not do to students — assembled with the help of kids and young adults.
Of course, a broader list would start with:
“Don’t give children useless standardized tests.”
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