Posted on 10/13/2010 2:14:54 PM PDT by truthandlife
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice staunchly defended outgoing Washington, D.C., chancellor of schools Michelle Rhee on Wednesday morning, saying her departure in the face of union-motivated political attacks marks "a sad day" for school children in the nation's capital.
During her controversial tenure as head of Washington's school system, Rhee shook up entrenched bureaucratic interests. Fox News reports she closed 24 schools and let go 98 central office employees.
michelle,rhee,condi,rice,fenty,teachers,union,resignation,mayor,race,waiting,for,supermanHer reforms helped boost students' test scores, and narrowed the gap between white and African-American students. But it also earned her the enmity of the teachers' unions, which reportedly spent over $1 million in the city's recent mayoral campaign in an effort to have her ousted.
When City Council chairman Vincent Gray defeated Mayor Adrian Fenty in the Democratic primary for mayor in September, Rhee's days were widely believed to be numbered.
In fact Rhee blamed her pro-student activism for the defeat of Fenty, who never wavered in his support for her aggressive education overhaul.
Rhee had been hailed as a "superstar" of U.S. education reform. Her fate will be noticed by education reformers nationwide, given her efforts to weed under-performing teachers out of the school system.
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Keeping BLACKS on the plantation....
She wanted to clean up the mess and haul out the trash. Naturally the trash fought back and apparently, have won.
...and, student test scores improved. Of course the unions can't stand her.
The simple fact that she has been as successful as she was, and the fact that the unions oppose her, prove that the unions no matter what they blather about don’t give a damn about true education.
Nice witch shoes...
In the event of an all-out nuclear war, the only survivors to emerge will be cockroaches and the teachers’ unions.
Don’t let anyone try to convince you that the Dems are proponents of ‘education’.
This is further proof that they practice ‘indoctrination’.
No, not necessarily. Her policies are still in place and that is why the teacher unions are so mad. She has done her job there. She will go onto bigger things and make a big impact on a national scale on student's educations. The teacher unions should be very afraid in the future....
Disband teacher unions!
Needless to say, the old guard in DC (re: People who thought Marion Barry was a good guy), backed Grey and the new incoming Chancellor, Kaya Henderson, is liked by the usual suspects, that being the unions, and the former members of the school board. Also, race, I hate to say it, was a factor. Many in the old guard weren't happy Fenty chose a lot of Whites and Asians to run things...they felt they were losing their "chocolate city". I've seen a lot of writing to that effect on local blogs.
Sadly, the "joke" will be on the children of DC. It will also be on DC as a whole, as the folks that moved into DC on faith that a corner had been turned? They're gonna leave.
Was it just two weeks ago that Obamao took a slam at the D.C. schools. Not good enough for his daughters.
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This was an attack on Fenty and Rhee.
Can't have that. An entire race of perpetual victims is essential to collectivist/progressive goals. If public schools start to raise everyone up to a certain standard as opposed to tearing them all down to the lowest common denominator, "progressivism" fails.
This was just the other shoe dropping after the rat scum did away with the charter schools in DC.
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