Gov.-elect Rick Scott announced Thursday that he has formed a transition team of education and community leaders to help him create “a new education system for a new economy.”
Topping the list is Michelle Rhee, the controversial former chancellor of Washington, D.C., schools who has become something of a rock star in the world of education reform. Sharply critical of teacher tenure, she butted heads with the teachers union and fired or forced out hundreds of educators and other employees before she resigned recently.
She also closed dozens of failing schools.
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