Michelle Rhee, Washington D.C.'s new education chief, is profiled in this month's Fast Company.  In a school district that spends $17,000+ per pupil gets some of the nation's worst results, and Rhee is determined to change that.  She has managed to downsize the central office significantly, fire multiple principals, and renegotiate the teachers' contract to make it easier to get rid of bad teachers while offering the carrot of major salary increases for teachers who succeed.  Rhee is a no-nonsense, take no prisoners executive who is obsessed with data from her time running the New Teacher Project.

If Rhee can succeed, there is hope for all urban school districts.

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