Michelle Rhee Wants to Spend $1 Billion Fixing Education

How — and why — she created her new interest group, Students First http://www.studentsfirst.org/.

The day after Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty lost his reelection bid last September, Michelle Rhee, the city’s schools chancellor and No. 1 lightning rod, had an OMG moment. For three years, Fenty had constantly spent political capital defending Rhee as she fired hundreds of teachers and principals, closed schools, and earned both education reformers’ adoration and teachers’ unions’ wrath. He eventually paid with his job — and she knew she’d soon pay with hers. What am I going to do? she thought.

By: Jeff Chu

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