It’s been a busy month for D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. First she successfully quashed the opposition to her proposed school closures, and then hatched plans to outsource food services for the District’s school cafeterias.

This week, she’s turned her focus to classroom instruction, an area to which her critics say she hasn’t yet paid sufficient attention. The Post reported this morning on an experimental special education initiative designed to reduce one of DCPS’s biggest expenditures, and wrote yesterday that Rhee and her office are considering a range of reforms to address low achievement at the 27 district schools that have failed to meet reading and math requirements for the last five years under the No Child Left Behind law. The District must select one of the following interventions for each of the schools: converting it to a charter school, hiring an education-management firm to run it, replacing all of its staff, turning it over to the state (or in the District’s case, the Office of the State Superintendent of Education) or creating an alternative proposal.

Rhee’s mostly looking toward the last option, suggesting reforms like scripted curricula (in which teachers literally read from a script while teaching), extended school days and weeks, career-themed “schools within schools,” and grouping overage students in to specialized classes.