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Sunday, January 2, 2011

Rhee taking agenda for D.C.-style education reform to national stage









By:
Lisa Gartner

Michelle Rhee plans to release her legislative agenda for education reform early this week, but whether legislators will embrace the platform remains to be seen, analysts say. "Whatever she releases will get attention," said Neal McCluskey, associate director of the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom. "It's a lot harder to say whether it will have any on-the-ground traction as far as legislation passed."

Rhee, the former city schools chancellor whose reforms polarized the District, told

The Washington Examiner of her plans to create a national education platform through the nonprofit advocacy group she started earlier this month, StudentsFirst.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/education/2011/01/rhees-ed-reform-platform-be-released-early-next-week#ixzz19u7KBCNV

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