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Related: About this forumMichelle Rhee’s Plan to Destroy Public Education
Michelle Rhee is is a one-person PAC. She is raising hundreds of millions of dollars from rightwing billionaires and foundations and corporations to subsidize her program.
What is her program? Destroy teachers unions; eliminate tenure and seniority; privatize public education. Having failed to transform the public schools of the District of Columbia, she now wants to privatize public education everywhere.
When I was in Chattanooga, Tennessee, I learned from a Democratic state senator that Rhee had poured $105,000 into a race between a liberal Democrat and a conservative Democrat. The difference between them? The conservative Democrat supports vouchers. My informant said, Candidates here will jump through hoops for a contribution of $1,000. Getting $105,000 is unimaginable. Rhee bought the election. The voucher-loving Democrat won. He added: Most of Rhees money goes to conservative Republicans.
She is trying to buy a seat in Connecticut now. A reader writes:
Rhees fraud of an organization has nothing to do with students, teaching or learning. It is a political lobbyist group that secretly slithers around the nation passing our billionaire donated cash to influence and bribe politicians. Her dirty donations push the privatization, anti-union, anti-public school, collective bargaining busting, teacher trashing dogma down their throats. Here she is a pariah and getting her money is the kiss of death here in CT:
http://jonathanpelto.com/2012/10/01/michelle-buy-yourself-an-election-rhee-returns-to-undermine-democracy-in-connecticut/
more ... http://dianeravitch.net/2012/10/02/michelle-rhees-plan-to-destroy-public-education/
Starry Messenger
(32,375 posts)Is this the lesson she really wants to impart to education? That you can just buy your way into anything?
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)of day by Democrats?
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)LWolf
(46,179 posts)one of those changing the face of the party, disenfranchising traditional supporters, and leaving many behind.