The Michelle Rhee file

2014
The Michelle Rhee con continues, thanks to the media
The facts vs. Michaelle Rhee
The real Michelle Rhee

2013
Now Michele Rhee is fouling up Tennessee education
DC government plans to bury Michelle Rhee test score scandal
Washington Post on school test cheating; fergetaboutit
Michelle Rhee's reign of error
Diane Ravitch on Michelle Rhee

2012
Husband of Michelle Rhee Scrutinized for Financial Malpractice
Report: Michelle Rhee a complete flop in DC
Michelle Rhee's rightwing connections
Washington's Rhee wreck
Arne Duncan & Michelle Rhee would fire Miss Snug
Would you want Michelle Rhee teaching your child?
80 teachers illegally fired by Michelle Rhee get reinstated
Michelle Rhee runs from media as her myth disintegrates
Why U.S. schools aren't as bad as Duncan & Rhee want you to believe
WHY RHEE, GATES & GUGGENHEIM ARE FULL OF IT

THE REAL STORY ABOUT MICHELLE RHEE

2008

RHEE THINKS REPUBLICANS ARE BETTER THAN DEMOCRATS

DC Wire, Washington Post - She's said it before, but Michelle Rhee keeps hammering away at the Democratic Party for being weak on education accountability and reform. Last night, Rhee appeared before the Ward 4 Democrats at Emery Recreation Center and explained that she appeared on an education panel discussion in Denver during the Democratic National Convention to "make a statement to the Democratic Party" about why it needs to get tougher on unions and other "political interests." Rhee stressed that she has been a lifelong Democrat, but then she lit into the Party. "Republicans are much better at education policy than Democrats," she said. "Democrats are soft on accountability and they're anti-NCLB [No Child Left Behind], they don't want to test anyone. This attitude in my mind does nothing for the neediest students who need help the most." To Rhee, Democratic leaders pander to unions and other interest groups who are "driving the agenda on school reform. Everyone thinks Republicans are for the rich, white oil guys to whom they give tax breaks and Democrats are for kids and the underclass. I don't think the Democratic Party operates that way. So we were there [in Denver] speaking out and pushing the Party to move in a different direction."

RHEE BACKS RIGHTWING ATTACK ON PUBLIC EDUCATION

LOOSE LIPS, CITY PAPER - Mayor Adrian M. Fenty might be a Barack Obama supporter, but his hand-picked education czar is opting for a different approach, at least when it comes to improving schools. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, in comments at a gathering of the Korean-American Coalition's D.C. chapter, endorsed the education plan of Arizona Republican John McCain "far and away" over those of either Obama or Hillary Clinton.

Rhee, in a speech at Tony Cheng's Restaurant in Chinatown, referred to herself as a "card-carrying Democrat" (LL forgot to ask to see the card), yet endorsed McCain's approach based on his willingness to reauthorize the controversial "No Child Left Behind" legislation. Both Clinton and Obama have been highly critical of the law and its effects. "I think they're pandering, quite frankly, to the teachers' unions and other folks," she said.

In comments after the speech, Rhee . . . called herself as a "huge proponent" of the federal law and said she was "incredibly disappointed" with the lack of Democratic support . . . though she did say she had a "laundry list" of things she would change with the statute.