Michelle Rhee

A lot of Republicans in Tallahassee probably are wishing Alex Sink won the election. At least she understood the ground rules of what you can and can't do. Scott is oblivious. He is the first governor since the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah to take...

First it was education reform maven Michelle Rhee who was modeling her methods for Florida state officials, telling them earlier this month how to dump unwanted teachers in one easy step. Now officials apparently are looking to Oprah Winfrey for...

Former Washington DC school boss Michelle Rhee testified in front of the Legislature today about the need for school reform.  She advocated firing 8 percent of the state's teachers. Sen. Bill Montford, D-Tallahassee, asked Rhee about the recent report...

  Michelle Rhee got star treatment when she came to Tallahassee, literally. She was introduced as a movie star to legislators.         I think Rhee could be a valuable front person for reform.       But come on. Jeb Bush has been preaching these reforms...

The Early Show (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Spring shopping; school reform advocate Michelle Rhee; Amy Ryan. (N) 7 a.m. KNBC KTLA Morning News (N) 7 a.m. KTLA Good Morning America Trey Parker and Matt Stone; royal wedding designers. (N)......

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More than half of the District of Columbia schools have been flagged by a testing company for unusually high wrong-to-right erasures since 2008. Such findings are among the clearest flags for cheating, though not absolute proof. But former D.C. schools...

The State Board of Education will meet Thursday in Tampa to interview search firms that can help it find Florida's next education commissioner. This is the second unscheduled “emergency” meeting the board has called in the past few weeks in...

A not-yet-opened charter school on Marco Island (in the southwest part of the state) has rounded up two big shots on the national education scene to headline a June fundraising event. Former Gov. Jeb Bush and Michelle Rhee, former D.C. schools chancellor,...

Michelle Rhee, who traveled to Tallahassee to testify in favor of a merit pay bill, today issued praise to the Florida Legislature for many of the school-related bills it passed in its just-wrapped up session. Rhee, the former chancellor of D.C. schools,...

The Los Angeles Unified School District continues to have more charter school students than any school system in the country, according to the latest data released by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. L.A. Unified, with about 68,500...

Gov. Rick Scott and Michelle Rhee plan a joint visit later this morning to a charter school in Opa-Locka, the governor's office said. Yesterday, Scott announced that Rhee — the controversial, former chancellor of Washington, D.C. schools —...