Time’s list of “the most influential people in the world” — which we’re betting is the only list to feature Aung San Suu Kyi, “muckraker” Julian Assange and the guy who designed Angry Birds in equal standing — was released today, and former D.C. Public Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee (who, of course, once graced the magazine’s cover sporting a broom) made the cut.

Rhee, though, had to settle for second-best when it came to the special guest write-up. While Harlem Children’s Zone Project founder Geoffrey Canada had U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan pen his blurb, Rhee’s text is prepared by Davis Guggenheim, who, of course, directed the love letter to Rhee-form, Waiting For “Superman”. Says Guggenheim:

[Rhee] set a goal to improve the lot of the nation’s students, and she has stuck to that. And she paid dearly for it, stepping down from her D.C. post in 2010 after Mayor Adrian Fenty lost his bid for re-election, a public rejection that some saw as a repudiation of the tough steps Rhee took to raise the standards of the city’s public schools. Subsequently, she shunned any high-salary job offers that resulted from her high-profile tenure and instead founded her organization.

On the other hand, the six-figure sum Rhee got in severance pay probably isn’t hindering the advancement of said goal.