Michelle Rhee doesn't matter - yet
Allen with another article about the challenges Michelle Rhee faces and what she can learn from Oakland, Philadelphia and NYC:
Rhee can learn from this. She knows decisions need to move down to the school level where teachers and principals know what they need most. Together with that change, she will need to create accountability for those educators, rewarding performance with changes in pay. This will require that she break ironclad policies and contracts that have allowed students to fail.
She will have to accomplish those Herculean tasks while sustaining Fenty’s support when political and union pressures start making her job near impossible.
Oh, and she’ll have to ensure that those changes outlast her tenure by being enacted into city, and probably federal, law.
When she does this, Rhee will matter.
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Michelle Rhee doesn’t matter — yet
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WASHINGTON - Handpicked by D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty as the new D.C. schools chancellor, Michelle Rhee inherits a city awash in cash, but allows more than half of its students to attend dangerous and ineffective schools.
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