Susan Ohanian offered this comment at her site on another article on Rhee in DC.
As usual, Sam Smith offers a concise, on-target critique.
One of the worst ideas floating around Washington is to give some high federal position to Michelle Rhee, DC school chancellor. Rhee, who has accomplished little of substance, is the media protected product of an area business community that would like to undermine public education as much as possible. Hence DC has an exceptional number of effectively unmonitored charter schools and Rhee is going after teacher tenure - not to mention teachers themselves - like a Blackwater mercenary dealing with Iraqis.
— Sam Smith
Rhee's master plan includes bribing teachers to give up tenure with a promise of raises of as much as $40,000. Sounds good until you realize the money is coming from unsecured grants from private foundations and Rhee could be gone in a short while, either through misguided promotion to the federal level or being dumped. In any case there's no tenure in the alternative to tenure.
You can find much more of this sorry story on our local site (DC City Desk) and searching for Rhee.
Undernews
2008-11-15
SKUNK=CHEAT=ALGONQUIAN ORGIN=OMNIVOROUS=BLACK & WHITE !OPPOSE ABOLISHMENT STATUTE AND PRAY DECLARATORY RELIEF PER RHEE CONTRACTURAL PROPOSAL !SKUNK SPRAYED CONTRACT !SEE WASHINGTON TEACHER LEGAL !SADDLE UP AND RIDE FAST !
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