Trump meets with school reformer, Michelle Rhee with education secretary post still open

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President-elect Donald Trump will meet Saturday with Michelle Rhee, a Democrat and former District of Columbia public schools leader who is considered in the running for secretary of education.

Rhee will meet with Trump, a Republican, at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., where he is also meeting with former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, purportedly being considered for secretary of state.

Jason Miller, Trump communications director, confirmed the Rhee meeting Saturday morning with FoxNews.com.

Like Trump, Rhee has been a supporter of school choice, backing some public money for charter schools while the D.C. schools chancellor from 2007 to 2010.

Trump’s School Choice Policy released in September calls for his incoming administration to “immediately” redirect $20 billion in federal funds to school choice -- in the form of block grants for an estimate 11 million school-age children living in poverty.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-meets-with-school-reformer-democrat-michelle-rhee-with-education-secretary-post-still-open/ar-AAkvCC1?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

[Uponthegears]

1. Oh fuck, what next?

[northoftheborder]

2. Michelle Rhee....

.....would be a disaster......for public education.....review her record in DC......

[longship]

3. Oh my fucking god! Not her! NO! nt

[Hugin]

4. And, then Public Education died...

So, only the rich and well connected are educated. I bet they'll still be able to get abortions, too.

[madinmaryland]

5. Another deplorable. Sigh. We're fucked/

[raging moderate]

6. That word "reformer" should be in quotation marks in this headline.

This woman is not known for real reform.

[badhair77]

7. He also met with

Betsy DeVos, the former Michigan Republican Party chair who is a huge school choice supporter. Neither one is good news.

[JonLP24]

8. I used to be a big fan

Of Kevin Johnson her husband, not her.

https://m.

[wordpix]

9. omg, she alienated everyone in DC when she was head of schools

she had little to no background in education and became DC public schools chief. She issued all kinds of proclamations and fired teachers for poor performance. It's well known that students from impoverished homes/neighborhoods do poorly on standardized tests compared to suburban and private school students; so often poor teacher performance has nothing to do with the teacher but instead, with the background of students.