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Showing posts with label memo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memo. Show all posts

Saturday, April 13, 2013

How Much Longer?

Here is a devastating 7:42 video for Michelle Rhee personally and for her "legacy" as both an education reformer and DCPS chancellor - John Merrow's appearance on MSNBC with Chris Hayes last night.

She of course wouldn't go on the program to respond to Merrow's report of the cheating memo.

How much longer can she get away with ignoring the allegations?

How much longer can she get away with stonewalling a full investigation of the charges of cheating in DCPS schools and her handling of those charges?

Can she continue to release "state education reform report cards" and the like through her PAC, Students First, and not have to respond to these charges?

I'm going to repeat what Jersey Jazzman first wrote when the Merrow report of the memo came out Thursday night:

We are at a crisis point. Either we are going to step up and demand the truth about Michelle Rhee and the Washington, D.C. cheating scandal, or we're going to sweep this entire thing under the rug and pretend that Rhee's vision of the world is valid: that our nation's massive inequity can be laid at the feet of a few "bad" teachers.

It is time - once and for all - to have an honest conversation about the legacy of Michelle Rhee.

How much longer will the media continue to let her run with her Students First jive like nothing happened?

How much longer can Rhee float above it all?