D.C. Schools Chief's Plan Faces Opposition
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All Things Considered, January 5, 2009 · Washington D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is fast becoming the country's best-known urban school reformer. But her proposal to do away with teacher tenure and replace it with an ambitious merit pay program has divided the teachers union.
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