D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee likes to tell a story about one of her principals who pledged to improve student achievement scores by 43 percentage points by the end of the school year.
How? Rhee asked.
” ‘I’m going to pray,’ ” the principal said, according to Rhee.
“It showed me,” Rhee recently told the Washington-based Institute for Education, “that there’s a very significant disconnect with some of our school leaders in really understanding what challenges they’re up against.”