(Washington Post) — I chatted over coffee the other day with former D.C. mayor Anthony Williams, who is widely credited with transforming the city and setting the stage for ramped-up school reform. Raised a few questions about the future of all that; here’s how it went:
Q: As the chief financial officer in 1996, your audit of D.C. public schools revealed a catastrophic system failure. The city became willing to do anything to fix it. So here we are, a decade later: Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee comes in, starts firing teachers and many residents start to balk. What happened?
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