Via the Examiner, someone has posted a video of D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to YouTube where she openly discusses the obstacles she’s come across in trying to overhaul our troubled public school system. The 12-minute clip shows Rhee speaking to the Democrats for Education Reform about a week ago. She describes the school system as running “counter to the way any good organization operates,” and insists that “the only way” to get to the bottom of its serious problems is for the D.C. Council to give her the authority to fire people.
It’s pretty interesting to see Rhee speak so forthrightly about her hopes to fire hundreds of central office employees — a topic that ought to continue to earn her the respect of people who are serious about school reform, and the ire of those who would cry that that’s not how things are done in D.C. government.
