Changemaker Profiles
Watching Michelle Rhee
Published June 14, 2009 @ 05:47PM PT
For those who follow education, and maybe even for those who simply follow the news, Michelle Rhee's name should be very familiar. Brought in as the Washington, D.C. schools' superintendent two years ago, she has the job of turning around what has to be one of the most notorious school systems in the country. She obviously knew this coming in and did so with guns blazing, proposing changes that would clean out the garbage and begin to make D.C. schools the type of place that one would expect in the nation's capital.
Of course, she hasn't exactly made friends with everyone and her noteriety, such as a now-famous (infamous, even?) Time magazine cover story, has both helped and hindered her quest to make the improvements that the system so desperately needs. A story on the front page of today's Washington Post reflects on her first two years as superintendent, detailing her successes and setbacks and predicting where her initiatives may take D.C. schools in the future.
