Chancellor Michelle Rhee (District of Columbia Public Schools) discusses her plans to stay at her job. Superintendents Jerry Weast (Montgomery County Public Schools) and Edgar Hatrick (Loudoun County Public Schools) offer their thoughts.
She enforced accountability and has a logical, critical mind. This is entirely incompatible with the incoming administration's patrons.
She'll be emasculated or fired. Continued progress in DC will not be allowed to continue. Fenty was no saint, but Gray sold the city out even if he doesn't know it yet and none of his supporters will think of it that way.
Would she accept Weast's mere $250 grand to come to Montgomery?
Rhee was hired to reform very low functioning schools in the DC. The overall percentage of DC CAS might have gone up by 4% but if you look across the District, the few schools that were already doing well throughout the years before she even came are the ones responsible for this gain in scores. But the majority of the schools which were doing poorly continue to do poorly; and that's after 3 years of drastic reform of closing schools and firing principals and teachers everywhere. If anyone goes to the website of OSSE and find % AYP you will see what I mean with 9% in elementary schools and 5 in Middle/High. Montgomery County Schools are already doing fine already. What will she do? Fire the existing teachers and replace them by Teach for America applicants or her sorority sisters?
Rhee is toast.
ReplyDeleteShe enforced accountability and has a logical, critical mind. This is entirely incompatible with the incoming administration's patrons.
She'll be emasculated or fired. Continued progress in DC will not be allowed to continue. Fenty was no saint, but Gray sold the city out even if he doesn't know it yet and none of his supporters will think of it that way.
Would she accept Weast's mere $250 grand to come to Montgomery?
Rhee was hired to reform very low functioning schools in the DC. The overall percentage of DC CAS might have gone up by 4% but if you look across the District, the few schools that were already doing well throughout the years before she even came are the ones responsible for this gain in scores. But the majority of the schools which were doing poorly continue to do poorly; and that's after 3 years of drastic reform of closing schools and firing principals and teachers everywhere. If anyone goes to the website of OSSE and find % AYP you will see what I mean with 9% in elementary schools and 5 in Middle/High.
ReplyDeleteMontgomery County Schools are already doing fine already. What will she do? Fire the existing teachers and replace them by Teach for America applicants or her sorority sisters?