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The Eternal Battle to Reform the D.C. Schools

Posted By David Boaz On November 1, 2009 @ 2:31 pm In Education and Child Policy | Comments Disabled

“When Kathy Patterson learned about Thursday’s D.C. Council hearing ^[1], during which Chairman Vincent C. Gray and Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee pelted each other with accusations of law-breaking and secret meetings, she had one immediate reaction,” reports the Washington Post ^[2].

“Here we go again,” said Patterson, a former council member and chairwoman of its education committee. It looked as if another attempt at public school reform was disintegrating in a hail of recriminations and rhetoric.

Casey Lartigue wrote about the decades-long efforts to improve the D.C. schools ^[3] for Cato back in 2002.

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[1] Thursday’s D.C. Council hearing: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/29/AR2009102901889.html

[2] reports the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/31/AR2009103102357.html

[3] improve the D.C. schools: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-461es.html

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