Reply #10: Here you go. "Rock Star" Rhee in Michigan.

[madfloridian]

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/03/michelle_rhee_michigan_lawmake.html

"Rhee, a 'rock star' of the reform movement, has appeared on magazine covers and in the documentary “Waiting for Superman,” and is criticized by union leaders who say her reforms are too dependent on firing teachers and principals.

With an overflow crowd in the state Capitol, Rhee was asked about her experiences with issues including merit pay, evaluations, parental involvement and rules the require the most recently hired teachers to be the first laid off.

The founder of a school policy group studentsfirst.org, Rhee said she was encouraged lawmakers are considering bills to recast the tenure system, which she said “will be incredibly difficult politically,” but will keep better teachers in schools, not just the ones serving the longest.

“I love teachers – effective teachers,” she said earlier in the day, addressing a smaller group of lawmakers and educators including Grand Rapids Superintendent Bernard Taylor. “No one has a harder job than an inner-city teacher. There is nothing more noble than working as a teacher.

“But if you raise some of these issues you are labeled 'anti-teacher' or a 'union-buster.' I'm not a union buster. But teachers have a very effective organization lobbying on their behalf. I want to be effective representing the other side, out children.”

Yeh, Michelle...you are very anti-teacher and you are indeed a union buster.