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President-elect Donald Trump met with controversial former Washington, D.C. public school chancellor Michelle Rhee, who is considered to be in the running for Secretary of Education as part of his administration.
Her husband, Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson, joined her for the meeting on Saturday at the billionaire businessman's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
The couple, who are both Democrats, were photographed departing the clubhouse in the afternoon after their meeting and shaking hands with Trump outside.
Like Trump, Rhee has been a supporter of school choice, which calls for public money to be used for charter schools.
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The grifters are coming out of the woodwork
longship
(40,416 posts)elleng
(130,928 posts)nothing's been very good at Department of Education for years.
longship
(40,416 posts)The solution is not to pitch the DOEd further into the pits of Hell, which is what Michelle Rhee would do. She may be a Democrat but she's a fucking lunatic!
elleng
(130,928 posts)NOTHING is an excuse for bad DoEd leadership.
I've been forever disappointed that Linds Darling-Hammond, who was on then Senator Obama's Education Policy Working Groups in his transition, was not named as Ed. Secretary. IMO arne duncan was/is pretty bad.
longship
(40,416 posts)I was teaching public high school mathematics when NCLB went into effect. I know the horrible outcome of that. It all but destroyed public education. Thankfully, I've now retired.
Now, all we need is Michelle Frucking Rhee, or anybody else Drumpf puts up for Secy of Ed.
We're in big poo-poo, my friend.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)Trump has a Cabinet of Despicables
dhol82
(9,353 posts)In terms of charter school crazies she is at the top of the list.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)spanone
(135,839 posts)TeamPooka
(24,228 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)muck right in to the WH behind him.
She is the worst possible choice for Ed. But he can say he's including Democrats!
badhair77
(4,218 posts)She's a terrible choice.