Michelle Rhee

Quick Facts

Full Name	Michelle Rhee
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Dec 25, 1969(1969-12-25)
Age	55
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Michelle Rhee Biography

Michelle Rhee is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on December 25, 1969 in Michigan, United States. She is the founder of StudentsFirst and The New Teacher Project which are non-profit education organisations. From 2007 to 2010, she was the chancellor for Washington D.C.’s public schools.

After being highly recommended by others, D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty offered Rhee a job as Washington D.C. chancellor.

Rhee was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the second of three children of South Korean immigrants Shang Rhee, a physician, and Inza Rhee, a clothing store owner. She was raised in the Toledo, Ohio area and educated in public schools, through the sixth grade. Her parents then sent her to South Korea to attend school for one year. Upon her return, they enrolled her in a private school because they felt the public school was lacking. She graduated from the private Maumee Valley Country Day School in 1988, and went on to Cornell University where she received a B.A. in government in 1992. She later earned a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

In 1997, Rhee founded and began serving as the CEO of The New Teacher Project, a nonprofit that within ten years of its founding, trained and supplied urban school districts with 23,000 mid-career professionals wanting to become classroom teachers. The project primarily serves New York, Chicago, Miami, and Philadelphia. Beginning in 2000, the project began redesigning the D.C. schools’ recruitment and hiring processes.

From her first marriage, she has two children. In 2011, she married Kevin Johnson.

Michelle Rhee Net Worth

Michelle Rhee is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Michelle Rhee 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Harvard University awarded her a master’s in public policy.

She completed one year in South Korea’s primary school and then began her teaching career at an inner-city school.

Michelle A. Rhee (born December 25, 1969) is an American educator and advocate for education reform. She was Chancellor of District of Columbia Public Schools from 2007 to 2010. In late 2010, she founded StudentsFirst, a non- profit organization that works on education reform.

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Who is Michelle Rhee Dating?

According to our records, Michelle Rhee married to Kevin Johnson , Kevin Huffman. As of December 1, 2023, Michelle Rhee’s is not dating anyone.

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Some D.C. parents and community leaders complained that despite these improvements, the speed with which Rhee enacted her reforms left them without input on the changes. The District Council also criticized Rhee for being unresponsive to council members’ requests for information about school operations. From 2008 to 2010, Rhee’s approval ratings decreased from 59 percent to 43 percent. In 2010, 28 percent of African Americans supported Rhee, down from 50 percent in 2008. Yet even “as residents grow less supportive of Fenty’s designated change agent for the schools,” noted the Washington Post, “they still approve of some of the changes. The proportion of parents in the city who see violence or crime as a ‘big problem’ has declined from 78 to 65 percent…. The quality and availability of books and other instructional materials is viewed as less of a major problem by all parents, dropping from 67 percent to 48 percent.” Also, the Post indicated that “Rhee’s efforts to raise the quality of teaching through improved training, evaluation, and dismissals might be gaining traction as well.”

Facts & Trivia

Michelle Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Michelle Rhee celebrates birthday on December 25 of every year.

On December 6, 2010, Rhee went on The Oprah Winfrey Show to announce that she had declined all job offers resulting from her high-profile work as D.C. Chancellor and would be focusing on a new advocacy organization she had formed called StudentsFirst. She told Winfrey’s audience she wanted to have one million members and raise $1 billion in order to catalyze education reform in the United States. According to The New York Times abolishing teacher tenure is a main objective of Rhee and the group. Within weeks of its founding, Rhee and StudentsFirst had advised the governors of Florida, Nevada and New Jersey on abolishing teacher tenure and other issues related to public education reform. In 2010–2011, Rhee served on the transition team of Florida Republican governor Rick Scott.

Top Facts about Michelle Rhee

1. Michelle Rhee served as Chancellor of DC Public Schools (2007-2010).
2. She founded StudentsFirst, an education advocacy organization.
3. Rhee implemented controversial teacher evaluations based on student test scores.
4. Her reforms led to increased graduation rates and improved test scores.
5. Critics accused her of being authoritarian and lacking transparency.
6. Rhee resigned after Mayor Adrian Fenty lost re-election in 2010.
7. She is married to former NBA player Kevin Johnson, now mayor of Sacramento.
8. Rhee’s book “Radical: Fighting to Put Students First” was published in 2013.
9. She has been a vocal advocate for school choice and charter schools.
10. Rhee currently serves on the board of directors for Teach For America.

What is Michelle Rhee doing now?

Since Rhee has no plans to leave education (she is now launching a non- profit organization to transform education across the country ) and her ideas appear to be on par with other innovative educators rising to the forefront, it is worth looking at her legacy more closely to see how it could change the face of education …

What is Michelle Rhee known for?

Michelle Rhee is an educator and education activist. She founded and served as the CEO of two nonprofit organizations, education reform organization StudentsFirst and The New Teacher Project, which focused on preparing teachers to work in urban schools.

What did Michelle Rhee do in Washington DC that was controversial?

Rhee was righteously indignant that day in September 2009 when she introduced her principals to the District’s new method of teacher evaluation. According to a national exam often used to track progress over time, only 8 percent of eighth-graders were working on grade level in math, she told the principals.

When Michelle Rhee took the position of chancellor of the DC public

schools what is one initiative she tried to implement that was met with strong resistance?

She planned to use a year-end test known as the DC CAS, or the D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System , as the key measure of that improvement. JOHN MERROW: Rhee would keep one eye on the scores, the other on those responsible for raising them.

Who is the head of DC public schools?

Lewis D. Ferebee is the Chancellor of DC Public Schools (DCPS), selected by Mayor Muriel Bowser in 2018.