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

Mr. Right Wrote: Feb 06, 2013 5:30 PM

You're correct - she is absolutely commendable. One of the lines I most admire is her insistence that the plan work for kids NOW. I've always wondered, when schools talk about a 5 year transition plan, if they view the students between now and the implementation of the plan to be expendable. Students, unlike teachers, do not get more than one chance to do the 4th grade. Students only get that one shot at each year's lessons. If the education system screws up that year for them, it is lost forever.

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

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: