Jeff Bryant has written an insightful article about Michelle Rhee’s increasingly strained effort to promote the policies of the far-rightwing and ALEC, while claiming to be a Democrat. Rhee goes from state to state, funding GOP candidates and a few Democrats who are anti-teacher, anti-union, and anti-public education. She is not a centrist Democrat but a conduit for major corporate interests who are pushing a reactionary agenda of privatization.

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Mark Collins says:

October 17, 2012 at 2:59 pm

Best line of the Brynat piece:

So Rhee is essentially a lobbyist working principally for the interests of conservative Republicans and corporations. Although colluding with conservative Republicans on public policy could be an example of “crossing the aisle,” not very many Democrats have chosen to make that crossing.

Now Michelle has danced many a fine line. I’m waiting for her to cross it. When she does, I’ll be there to see her and hopefully Mayor Kevin off.

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Dienne says:

October 17, 2012 at 3:29 pm

Now if only we could understand how she became isolated from humanity.

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- dianerav says:
  
  October 17, 2012 at 3:33 pm
  
  BL! ( belly laugh).
  
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Ben Carson says:

October 17, 2012 at 4:08 pm

All that Michelle Rhee, and for that matter TFA, have proven is that the old adage about smart kids is alive a well. The way I heard it was that” the smart kids will learn even when the teacher/ing is bad. All they need is to be exposed to the material” . I know that sounds terrible, but it is sadly true.
Eventually, only the smart kids are left in the Charter schools. They learn (at least to some degree) and they get to stay. All the while making the inexperienced (TFA), non certified, and poorly trained teachers look great. Those companies ought to realize who’s really buttering their bread and pay the kids a stipend for teaching themselves.
On the flip side, there are the Michelle Rhees who do a horrible job, rig their test results, and then get rewarded for going around a lying about their miracle. The “smart /privileged kids survive, the at-risk kids get left behind. That will be the legacy of “market driven reforms”.

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Jeff Bryant says:

October 17, 2012 at 4:36 pm

Thanks Diane for the MT. Onward.

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Lorraine Richardson says:

October 18, 2012 at 2:18 pm

She is a poverty “pimp” – sells her services to the highest bidder. It’s like a person who is married to one person and sleeps with another. They want it both ways.

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Lehrer says:

October 20, 2012 at 5:47 am

Richard Kahlenberg hit the nail on the head : “Democratic education policy…for too long has aped right-wing rhetoric in the name of education reform.”

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