Adrian Fenty’s Loss Is Both Obama’s and Education Reform’s
Adrian Fenty’s defeat puts Washington, D.C.’s aggressive school reform efforts, spearheaded by schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, on the chopping block—and is a lesson for the president from voters.
The not-quite-unexpected defeat of Washington, D.C.’s wunderkind mayor, Adrian Fenty, by the decent but relatively milquetoast City Council chairman Vincent Gray, has everything to do with the debate over Fenty’s aggressive school reform efforts.
