Schools Chief in Capital to Resign

A spot-on quote from DFER's Joe Williams in the WSJ article about Rhee leaving:

"Anyone who thinks this is the last they will hear from Michelle Rhee obviously hasn't been watching very closely," said Joe Williams, executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, an advocacy group. "She has the potential to be even more of a menace to the status quo from the outside of the system."

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Schools Chief in Capital to Resign

• OCTOBER 12, 2010, 10:47 P.M. ET

By STEPHANIE BANCHERO

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703440004575548934085667508.html

WASHINGTON—Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee will announce her resignation Wednesday, a person close to her said, ending a stormy tenure that brought Ms. Rhee national attention as a tough-minded superintendent willing to take on the teacher's union.