Rhee airs frustration with school system in YouTube video

 

           I posted excerpts from Michelle Rhee's remarks at the Dems for Ed Reform launch event last Monday on YouTube at:
         <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w-ta17X8DM>  (part 1) and :  <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c0etdSVHIM>  (part 2).  The video has been getting a lot of traffic and the
         Washington Examiner wrote an article about it (below), which begins:

        A YouTube video circulating on the Internet provides some of the most candid confessions to date from D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee about the frustrations she’s
       faced in trying to weed out poor-performing school staff and in getting communities to understand just how troubled the schools are.
 
       Rhee, speaking to the Democrats for Education Reform a week ago, asks the group and other like-minded agencies to support her in the likely uphill battle to pass legislation          
       allowing for the firings of hundreds of weak central office members.

           Kudos to her for speaking frankly about the enormous challenges she faces and her plan for addressing them.  Watching the video, one can't help but think two things: a) What an     
         unbelievable cesspool she's trying to clean up; and b) If anyone can do it, she can!

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Rhee airs frustration with school system in YouTube video
Washington Examiner, 9/24/07
 <http://www.examiner.com/ArticleEmail.cfm?articleID=951755&amp;cid=tool-email-top>  
 
WASHINGTON -- A YouTube video circulating on the Internet provides some of the most candid confessions to date from D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee about the frustrations she’s faced in trying to weed out poor-performing school staff and in getting communities to understand just how troubled the schools are.