2016.11.22 11:45
The Washington Post: Education
Michelle Rhee takes herself out of the running for Trump’s education secretary
By Emma Brown November 22 at 4:38 PM Emma Brown writes about national education and about people with a stake in schools, including teachers, parents and kids.
Former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee and her husband Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson met with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice-President elect Mike Pence on Nov. 19 in Bedminster, N.J. where Trump and Pence have been holding transition meetings at his private golf course . (The Washington Post)
Michelle Rhee, who rose to national prominence as the controversial chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, appeared on Tuesday to take herself out of the running to become President-elect Donald Trump’s education secretary.
Rhee’s name had been circulated as a potential candidate for education secretary, speculation that only intensified after she and her husband — former NBA star and current Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson — met with Trump over the weekend. Trump pronounced them both “greatly talented” and, according to his transition team, they spoke about “the possibility for increasing competition through charter and choice schools.”
[Jay Mathews: Rhee was an outsider trying to tear up the school bosses, just like Trump]
Rhee put the education secretary rumors to bed on Tuesday afternoon, tweeting that she was not pursuing the position. But she pushed back against criticism by some in the education reform community that she should not have met with Trump, given his statements about women, immigrants, Muslims and people with disabilities.
[Advocacy group warns fellow Democrats: Don’t become Trump’s education secretary]
“I have appreciated the opportunity to share my thoughts on education with the PEOTUS,” Rhee’s message said, using an acronym for President-elect of the United States. “Interestingly many colleagues warned me against doing so. They are wrong. Mr. Trump won the election. Our job as Americans is to want him to succeed. Wishing for his failure would be wanting the failure of our millions of American children who desperately need a better education.”
“I am hopeful about the opportunity to find common ground on this important issue of education and will do whatever I can to be supportive,” she wrote in a separate tweet.
In light of the speculation about the Secretary of Education role, I wanted to clarify my position and what's best for America's students. 1:01 PM - 22 Nov 2016
Twitter Michelle Rhee ✔ @MichelleRhee
As an Asian American woman, Rhee would have brought diversity to a prospective Cabinet that is otherwise shaping up to be largely white and male. She also would have brought a diversity of ideas: Rhee is a longtime Democrat who has been a strong supporter of the Common Core State Standards, which Trump and his base abhor. She says that young undocumented people who have grown up in the United States should have a route to citizenship, putting her squarely at odds with the president-elect, who put mass deportation at the center of his campaign.
But Rhee’s blunt pronouncements about broken public schools — and the way she seemed to relish public battles with the teachers union as she instituted sweeping changes in D.C. schools — have made her one of the most widely known figures calling for change in the education system. She has been a foremost voice pushing for the expansion of charter schools and a rare Democrat who embraces vouchers for private schools — on expanding such taxpayer-funded alternatives to traditional public schools, she and Trump see eye to eye.
And not incidentally, Rhee’s brash style is a lot like Trump’s: The two share the distinction of having fired employees on national television, Trump on his show “The Apprentice” and Rhee during a public television documentary.
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2016.11.22 12:25
2016.11.23 11:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibdoQdl2H1c&t=25s
(PBS: Frontline The Education of Michelle Rhee, Frontline examines the legacy of
one of America's most controversial reformer)
I am going to start a revolution. - Michelle Rhee
2013 년 1월에 PBS 에서 방영된 다큐멘타리 입니다. 그는 reformer 라기 보다는
혁명가라고 생각합니다. 좋은 아니디어를 가지고 있었으나 너무 과격하게
추진해서 적을 많이 만들었 습니다. 결국 politics 에 실패해서 전적으로
뒷 받침 해주었던 디시 시장 아드리안 펜티 까지도 낙선 되는 원인 제공을
하게 됐습니다. 만약 Secretary가 된다면 그때의 경험을 살려서 좀 정치적인
면에 신경을 썼으면 합니다. 아무튼 Korean American 으로 써 보기드문
줄충한 인물임에는 틀림 없습니다.
I talked to Michelle's mother, Mrs. Shang Rhee (이상열 class of 65), yesterday
and hoped that Michelle would take the position offered by Donald Trump.
Mrs. Rhee seemed to agree with my wish but said Michelle had not decided yet.
However, anyway, it was all up to Michelle, not us.
She could have been the first Korean to be the Education Secretary of U.S.
that would have been equivalent to Obama's presidency as a black person.
It is very regrettable that she did not open the gate for Koreans into Washington's political arena
as if Seri Park opened the gate into LPGA for Korean girls.
Someone has to open the gate for Koreans in all and every fields in American society.
I am heart-broken on this.
I have never believed in Michelle's "Student First" movement that I thought as a dead-end street.
As the Education Secretary, she could have improved her chance of success
in making the "Student First" into a more powerful movement. Why not take the job !?
Her stupidity and the lack of vision amaze me.
How she can kick away the miraculous chance that came upon her door?