Showing posts with label Michelle Rhee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michelle Rhee. Show all posts

January 20, 2014

This week in the War on Workers: Charter cheerleaders reject accountability

www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/18/1270190/-This-week-in-the-War-on-Workers-Charter-cheerleaders-reject-accountability
"Meanwhile, Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst once again released its education report card, which measures states not on their educational outcomes but on whether they have corporate education policies in place. That means you get gems like Louisiana getting a B- while Connecticut got a D+, even though Connecticut's educational outcomes are substantially better than Louisiana's. Hilarious, isn't it, how the people who scream the most loudly about accountability when it comes to teachers tasked with educating the most challenged students absolutely reject accountability when it comes to their own policies?"

March 15, 2013

An Open Challenge to Michelle Rhee and the Corporate Education Zombies | Common Dreams

An Open Challenge to Michelle Rhee and the Corporate Education Zombies | Common Dreams
"Rhee, the prominent corporate education reform advocate, former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor, and CEO of the ironically-named “Students First” organization, now has Seattle in her crosshairs. In her March 5thop-ed for the Seattle Times, Rhee berated teachers at Garfield and other Seattle schools for their boycott of the district required MAP test."

March 7, 2013

Bloomberg, Murdoch and Rhee Lose Big in Los Angeles

Bloomberg, Murdoch and Rhee Lose Big in Los Angeles
"Dropping all of that outside money into this election woke people up. I wish it had awakened even more, because there is another lesson to take away from this election: Real-time disclosure makes a difference."