Rhee starts nonprofit to push education agenda

Michelle Rhee said she will roll out a legislative agenda for education reform nationwide in the next few weeks through a nonprofit advocacy organization that she started Monday. At the helm of Students First, the former D.C. schools chancellor said she will provide funds and support to communities committed to implementing the very reforms that polarized the District.

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.