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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Sunday, February 27, 2011 Trends: Michelle Rhee Out Of The Capital, Across The Nation With StudentsFirst Michelle Rhee has been in the education spotlight for a number of years now. Her mission is to put students in the spotlight, as the focus of all decisions made in our schools. It sounds elementary, self-evident, and even a bit cliche---"Students First" should be the filter through which all education decisions are vetted. When Michelle Rhee advocates for it....she seems to mean it. Much of the recent uproar in states across our country is associated with conservative politicians taking advantage of tight fiscal times to assault collective bargaining rights and other benefits. Unions are under siege. Even right-to-work states, like Texas, are pinching entrenched interests in other ways. Budgets are being slashed, staffing is being reduced, and the unemployed educator pool is ballooning. It is not just from the right, however, that schools are being challenged. Michelle Rhee is an example of Democratic dissatisfaction with the status quo. After three years of intensely challenging vested interests in D.C.'s K-12 schools, she has established StudentsFirst, an education advocacy group based out of Sacramento. Posted at 11:30 AM Keywords: Trends , Michelle Rhee , StudentsFirst , School Reform , Collective Bargaining , Unions 2 Comments |
