New website: RheeFirst

[Hannah Bell]

Welcome to RheeFirst!

Michelle Rhee is the Sarah Palin of public education. She is all celebrity and very little record. To the extent she has a record, she has misrepresented it. Closer scrutiny of her reveals that she has a long and persistent pattern of inflating her successes. She claims that “record gains” were made in student tests scores during her tenure as Chancellor in DC. Not true. She claims that graduation rates were over 70 percent. Not true. She claims she cut the central office budget by 50 percent. Not true. Rhee claims she is for kids, but inflating her record does not help them.

All of Rhee’s celebrity will not cover up the fact that she has a very unimpressive record. It’s time we set the record straight. Hence, this website. Here you will find academic reports, informed opinion, news articles, informed blogs and videos. Guest columns are welcomed. Please send your material to be considered for posting here. Finally, everyone enjoys a good laugh, so please share those, too.

http://66.147.244.227/~rheefirs/