AP Photo/Susan Walsh D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has been basking in the limelight since she announced that an agreement on a teachers contract had finally been reached. At a hearing before the D.C. Council today, though, her celebratory mood was quickly dampened by revelations that might endanger the whole contract. The Examiner reports that at a hearing on Mayor Adrian Fenty’s 2010 budget today, Rhee explained that part of the teacher raises contemplated…

AP Photo/Susan Walsh On the heels of yet another, albeit much smaller round of layoffs coming out of DCPS, Courthouse News Service reports that Ronnie Jones, one of the teachers who was ousted in the last D.C. Schools RIF, has filed a lawsuit against Chancellor Michelle Rhee. But if you guessed wrongful termination suit, you’d be wrong. Instead, Jones is seeking “$20 million in compensatory damages and $20 million in punitive damages” for “defamation,…