This Ohio blogger reports that Michelle Rhee is now advising the anti-public school administration of Governor John Kasich and the Republican legislature about how to fund education.
Given the predisposition of the leadership in Ohio, the outcome is predictable and it won’t be good for public education.
Ohio has a flourishing landscape of charters and a growing voucher program.
The charter landscape is very profitable for certain big-time charter operators, but charters do not outperform public schools. Many get very low scores.
The online charters are immensely profitable for their owners, but do as poorly for their students as online charters in other states.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
If I were John- I would run. But then again, she is an ‘irreplacable’ advocate for privatization and other assorted deeds. I can see why he’d follow her. The question is where?
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look at this mess in DE: http://transparentchristina.wordpress.com/2012/12/06/delaware-department-of-education-now-offering-student-incentive-contests-with-prize-money-for-the-best-poster-or-video-for-preparing-for-naep-testing-netde/
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I’m waiting for us to bottom out as a society. Judging by this contest we are almost there. When I first started teaching I told my kids that life wasn’t a multiple-choice test. Looking back, I guess I was wrong.
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We’re no where near bottoming out. Right now we are in 1931 with quite a while to go before hitting the bottom.
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I have yet to understand how this woman, with so little in the way of education cred, has so much influence. But influence she does indeed have. *sigh*
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I agree! I don’t understand it either.
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She has cred only because she brings in funding. If she didn’t have ties to big $, she would cease to be relevant…sigh.
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