Rhee said grants from foundations -- including several that sponsored the teacher merit pay plan Rhee introduced in the District -- will fund Students First, alongside membership dues and individual donations. Her goal is 1 million members and $1 billion.The Laura and John Arnold Foundation, Robertson Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, and Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation are the four foundations that sponsored Rhee's teacher merit pay plan.
One billion dollars is an insane amount of money - and that's how much Rhee wants to raise in year one. And what does Michelle plan to do with her dough? We'll know pretty soon:
The first step will be an educational platform outlining "the gold standard of what the environment should look like and the laws that should be in existence," which Rhee plans to publish this month. "Some governors want to mention it in their state-of-state addresses or introduce it in their first legislative session," she told The Washington Examiner.
This concerns me greatly. We really need something equally funded on the side of evidence-based school reform; informed by and involving actual teachers and their partnerships w/ researchers. Not the crap Rhee is peddling.
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