What Next for Michelle Rhee and Her School Reform Campaign?
20 October 2011
Michelle Rhee talks to a third-grader at J.O. Wilson Elementary School in Washington
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
Michelle Rhee had never led a school system before she came to the public schools in Washington in two thousand seven. By the end of the following year she was on the cover of Time. The magazine recognized her as a national leader in education reform.
And now Ms. Rhee appears in the film "Waiting for 'Superman,'" a documentary about problems in the educational system.
MICHELLE RHEE: "You wake up every morning and you know that kids are getting a really crappy education right now."
DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: "So you think that most of the kids are getting a crappy education right now?"
MICHELLE RHEE: "Oh, I don't think they are. I know they are."
Ms. Rhee closed underperforming schools in America's capital. She dismissed hundreds of teachers and administrators -- including the principal at her daughters' school.
She angered the teachers union and those traditionally protected in permanent jobs, but who she said were not doing a good enough job. She negotiated a new labor contract that measures teacher success based in part on student performance.
Many of her actions were the same as those supported nationally by the Department of Education and President Obama.
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