Michelle Rhee quits D.C. Educational facilities chancellorship

Michelle Rhee, hard-nosed Chancellor of Washington, D.C., Public Schools, has decided to resign rather than face a new city govt that will not support her education reform programs. According to the Boston Globe, Rhee’s decision had been made after discussion with new mayor Vincent Gray. Deputy Chancellor Kaya Henderson will assist out the remainder of the institution years, writes the Washington Post.

Michelle Rhee gets on the teachers’ union’s case

Public schools within the District of Columbia consistently ranked near the bottom in the most essential achievement categories before Michelle Rhee’s arrival. Teachers that weren’t doing their positions were either kicked out or had to improve which is how Rhee made schools better. The teacher firings in Washington D.C. begun to go up quite high. This made Rhee an enemy to most teachers’ unions and those who got fired. The school systems got used to the teachers that were there for more than 3 years. It’s this that the Innovative Education Management explains. Getting teachers fired was not very easy. Lots of proof had to be shown for these firings. Tenured teachers were more prone to lack of motivation, as job security was assured so long as they put forth enough effort to skate by.

'Unions can smell blood’ evidently

Michelle Rhee has resigned now which means the agenda she had in mind can have to be kept up by Kaya Henderson. ”The unions can smell blood,” though. This is what the Globe explains. Tenure programs will likely continue, Henderson will probably be “gone after Christmas” and the stream of teaching talent Michelle Rhee drew to D.C. Public Schools will likely dry up.

Many of the D.C. schools started to get donations from foundations because of Michelle Rhee’s passion there. This will probably all change pretty soon. Numerous wonder who is going to take over since Rhee was the only one many believed could change anything which means maybe D.C. educational facilities aren’t recovering anymore? Those who support education reform may need another hero, however Mayor Gray is reportedly a supporter of the D.C. teachers’ union. Business will get done within the D.C. schools. That’s all that is being called for at present. The American public schools lost another person who could have helped. She was a good reformer.

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Boston Glove

boston.com/community/blogs/rock_the_schoolhouse/2010/10/_she_will_be_replaced.html

Innovative Education Management, Inc

ieminc.org/