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One Reformer’s Heroic Story to Save America’s Public School Children

ColdWolverine Wrote: Feb 06, 2013 5:53 PM
This is a painful topic for a lot of parents. We cast our lot with the public schools 16 years ago, dealing with the excuses, red tape, burned out teachers, etc. Now we only have one child left in school, and we are dealing with exactly the same issues we were sixteen years ago. It will go on forever the way it is today unless something revolutionary happens.

Michelle Rhee is a lifelong Democrat and education reformer who has recently come out in support of school vouchers. Writing in the Daily Beast a few days ago, she explained the prevailing reason for her change of heart: Her countless (and at times) heartbreaking interactions with devastated parents coping with the realization that their child would be stuck in a failing school -- forever. And the feeling that there was nothing she could do for them:

After my listening tour of families, and hearing so many parents plead for an immediate solution to their desire for a quality education,...
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