Michelle Rhee Discusses "Waiting for Superman," Charter Schools And School Vouchers

Michelle Rhee a featured player in the new documentary "Waiting for Superman" discusses the movie, charter schools, school vouchers and are D.C. public schools good enough for high profile politicians' children.

Should school vouchers be made available if a student is not selected to attend a charter school?

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• Roland Martin
• Michelle Rhee
• TV One
• Education

[campg08]

@MsJanetWood That's nothing compared to the amount that DC schools spend on failing schools, student's who are falling behind, and the payment to inadequate teachers.

[LibertyDownUnder]

@MsJanetWood, it would have been better if her decisions bankrupted public schools altogether. Worked well for New Orleans Schools:

/watch?v=tsEP_5axdLI (add youtube.com before that link)

[LibertyDownUnder]

Public schools are run for TEACHERS and UNIONS. The students are just a distraction from the main mission of getting more power.

[MsJanetWood]

Michelle Rhee's rash decisions cost DC schools $7.5 million dollars!

[UCSDEngineerDoctor]

The UNIONs have bankrupt our economy, and now the teachers UNION have bankrupt our kids education. OBAMA does not want school choice or vouchers, because it will undermine the UNIONs cash cow of corruption. OBAMA is a UNION whore. OBAMA does not give a fuck about our kids - OBAMA just like the UNIONs only care about their wallets.

[matt605]

@mpardueable Neighborhood schools are also funded by No Child Left Behind, which is a matching program. Kids in wealthy neighborhoods get more federal dollars because more local money is already spent on them, and kids in poor neighborhoods get fewer federal dollar because less local money is spent on them.

[ktl2828]

@mpardueable When people say your ignorant that usually means that you are correct. Asian immigrants are also poor, but their children seem to do pretty well in school. So do immigrant children from Eastern European countries. See when you actually deal with the problems in you neighborhoods and stop blaming somebody else, then maybe you will succeed.

[mpardueable]

@ktl2828 you are ignorant. Do you realize that neighborhood schools are funded by property tax? That means poor children go to poor, failing, understaffed, overpopulated schools with lack of resources. Its not teachers fault, but they often add to the problem.

[armandx10]

She's shilling for Obama and that's a shame.

[whatsgoingon07]

having to wait for a lottery number to decide the quality of my future education makes me wanna puke. quality education should be right, not a privilege. I am willing to pay higher taxes for the following institutions

1. Universal Health Care

2. Free quality Education(up to college)

3. Housing and Nutrition aid for kids under 18

this is ridiculous, imagine how much we can provide with 1.4 trillion dollars that we already spend on US military in 2011, roughly 20% of our entire annual budget