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There's a hot topic on the New York City thread on the effectiveness of charter schools in NYC.
Let me ask you guys in DC this......
It appears that Rhee, in some eyes, resorted to bullying tactics to implement her policies, and that her attitude was 'my way or the highway'. Had Rhee been more understanding of the concerns of the opposition, could her goal of charter schools have been put in place, with a few tweeks?
There's a hot topic on the New York City thread on the effectiveness of charter schools in NYC.
Let me ask you guys in DC this......
It appears that Rhee, in some eyes, resorted to bullying tactics to implement her policies, and that her attitude was 'my way or the highway'. Had Rhee been more understanding of the concerns of the opposition, could her goal of charter schools have been put in place, with a few tweeks?
Sure it may have, or maybe not. You can't go back in history and say, "if someone acted differently, the result would have been this" with any certainty. Too many other factors.
There's a hot topic on the New York City thread on the effectiveness of charter schools in NYC.
Let me ask you guys in DC this......
It appears that Rhee, in some eyes, resorted to bullying tactics to implement her policies, and that her attitude was 'my way or the highway'. Had Rhee been more understanding of the concerns of the opposition, could her goal of charter schools have been put in place, with a few tweeks?
No, the direction she wanted to go went straight through the teachers unions, and they weren't going to let her pass through with just a few tweaks when her primary platform was complete anathema to them. She had to roll them.
Rhee wasn't about charters in DC, as she was the head of the DCPS system, not the overall board of education. Charters were competition for DCPS public dollars, so her plan wasn't about shifting students to charters.
Her plan was to smash the central office bureacracy, implement onerous testing, reward good teachers based on that testing with high pay, and have the flexibility to fire poor performing teachers.
The union had objections and reservations on these points and wanted substantial input in how they would be implemented, they were froze out, and both sides cast each others as villains.
However, I don't know if Rhee 2.0 would have tried to shift DCPS students to the charters if she stayed.
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