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The headline in May read "Rhee Dismisses 24 Principals." In most cities, it would have been front-page news. In The Washington Post, it ran -- ho-hum -- on page B5.
That's perhaps because, after a year of dramatic shake-ups by Washington Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, such mass firings in what was once a remarkably dysfunctional system now seem almost routine.
One of the 24 fired principals was the head of the bilingual school Rhee's kindergartner and third-grader attend. She defended her move, saying the school wasn't bilingual enough. 


...Although known as an educator, her degrees from Cornell University and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard are in political science. She taught three years in the Baltimore City Schools with Teach for America, the non-profit program that sends eager young college graduates into troubled schools, before founding The New Teacher Project, her consulting firm.