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Michelle Rhee's Plan to Destroy Public Education
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Oct 3, 2012 7:01 PM
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From Diane Ravitch's Blog [A site to discuss better education for
all], Tuesday, October 2, 2012. See
http://dianeravitch.net/2012/10/02/michelle-rhees-plan-to-destroy-public-education/
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Michelle Rhee's Plan to Destroy Public Education
Michelle Rhee is is a one-person PAC. She is raising hundreds of
millions of dollars from rightwing billionaires and foundations and
corporations to subsidize her program.
What is her program? Destroy teachers' unions; eliminate tenure and
seniority; privatize public education. Having failed to transform the
public schools of the District of Columbia, she now wants to
privatize public education everywhere.
When I was in Chattanooga, Tennessee, I learned from a Democratic
state senator that Rhee had poured $105,000 into a race between a
liberal Democrat and a conservative Democrat. The difference between
them? The conservative Democrat supports vouchers. My informant said,
"Candidates here will jump through hoops for a contribution of
$1,000. Getting $105,000 is unimaginable." Rhee bought the election.
The voucher-loving Democrat won. He added: Most of Rhee's money goes
to conservative Republicans.
She is trying to buy a seat in Connecticut now. A reader writes:
Rhee's fraud of an organization has nothing to do with students,
teaching or learning. It is a political lobbyist group that secretly
slithers around the nation passing our billionaire donated cash to
influence and bribe politicians. Her dirty donations push the
privatization, anti-union, anti-public school, collective bargaining
busting, teacher trashing dogma down their throats. Here she is a
pariah and getting her money is the kiss of death here in CT:
Michelle "Buy Yourself An Election" Rhee returns to undermine
democracy in Connecticut -- See
http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/01/michelle-buy-yourself-an-election-rhee-returns-to-undermine-democracy-in-connecticut/
Is Michelle Rhee Trying To Buy A Seat In The 5th? -- See
http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/ctnj.php/archives/entry/is_michelle_rhee_trying_to_buy_a_seat_in_the_5th/#comments-31483
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See also, Diane Ravitch Talks School Reform, the Chicago Strike, and
the "Testing Vampire" --
Part 1:
http://prospect.org/article/diane-ravitch-talks-school-reform-chicago-strike-and-testing-vampire
Part 2: http://prospect.org/article/diane-ravitch-effort-destroy-public-ed
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Jerry P. Becker
Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction
Southern Illinois University
625 Wham Drive
Mail Code 4610
Carbondale, IL 62901-4610
Phone: (618) 453-4241 [O]
(618) 457-8903 [H]
Fax: (618) 453-4244
E-mail: jbecker@siu.edu
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