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You act as though "reform happened" and "it's already been tried" which is complete BS.  Rhee was only there from June 2007 to October 2010, and she met with a huge amount of inertia and resistance, and only a small part of her reform agenda was even put into place.  What she found was massive inefficiencies and waste in central office, which she was working on fixing, warehouses full of textbooks that weren't even being distributed, teachers who didn't even know the subject matter they were supposed to be teaching, and lots of other huge problems.  Only a tiny portion of those issues were addressed and dealt with, yet here you are pretending "it's already been tried".  And most of that proactive agenda has stagnated under Henderson.  Those problems still exist, and are still deeply entrenched, my friend.[/quote]

Your words, not mine, so please take the quotation marks off.   Reform has been happening for the past six years and this is what it looks like -- lots of change and no improvement.

Rhee was famous for cutting through inertia and resistance -- She could do a lot with mayoral control.  She changed a lot of things - and aside from getting the books out of the warehouse, they haven't worked.  A zillion dollar teacher evaluation plan and all those ineffective teachers fired (and many "highly effective ones given bonuses) and no improvement in student achievement.

The good schools are still good and the bad ones are still bad.  This is failed reform -- yet it continues and parents who care about their kids' education and want to stay in DC are not making much of a fuss about it.

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