{"id":20903,"date":"2010-10-20T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T15:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20903"},"modified":"2010-10-20T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T15:26:01","slug":"christie-offers-rhee-job-in-nj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20903","title":{"rendered":"Christie offers Rhee job in NJ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re at all like me, you&#8217;re lamenting the resignation of DC&#8217;s last best chance for a mediocre educational system, Michelle Rhee. Well, at least one governor recognizes her talents and has offered her a job (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/10\/former_washington_dc_schools_c.html\">Newark Star-Ledger<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the Christie administration wanted Rhee to consider the vacant state education commissioner\u2019s post, a more attractive offer to her because it signified a step up on the ladder of national education reform influence, according to sources who sought anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss confidential matters. But the state could not get Rhee &#8220;past the gate&#8221; because of frustration that a move to New Jersey would take her away from her family. Her husband Kevin Johnson, a former NBA All-Star, is the mayor of Sacramento, Calif.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The education system across the country needs reform and Rhee seems to be the only person in the country who has the gumption to stand up to the unions while she actually occupies a position from which she can wield the tools necessary to effect change.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking on CNN Tuesday, Rhee would not confirm that New Jersey officials had contacted her about becoming the state\u2019s next education commissioner or Newark\u2019s next superintendent, nor would she deny that she\u2019s not interested in the opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m still thinking about all my options and where I would have the best impact for kids,&#8221; Rhee said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re at all like me, you&#8217;re lamenting the resignation of DC&#8217;s last best chance for &hellip; <a title=\"Christie offers Rhee job in NJ?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20903\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christie offers Rhee job in NJ?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}