Posted: 08 Feb 2012 06:00 AM PST
Here are some basic facts about Alabama. They have the most draconian immigration laws in the country, forcing people to produce identification proving they have legal status before they can even get water service, much less an education for their children. Under Alabama's horrible law, teachers are required to check the immigration status of their students. These policies are inhuman in a state where there are already far too many poor people, citizen and immigrant alike. Also? Alabama does not currently have charter schools.
Alabama's education system is underfunded and in need of reforms, but not Rhee's flavor of reforms. To get a sense of who she really is, watch the video at the top where she admits she was a bad teacher while selling herself as a reformer.
And now she's sold herself to Alabama as The Great Education Savior, under what can only be described as very strange and odd circumstances.
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Let's have a look at the parallels between Michelle Rhee's priorities and ALEC's.
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