Teacher layoffs continue Rhee’s reforms

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When Chancellor Kaya Henderson took the reins of D.C. Public Schools in November, critics wondered if she was tough enough to push the education reforms of the notoriously abrasive Michelle Rhee.

But 206 teacher layoffs — and the style in which Henderson delivered the news — reveal her as a committed successor to the Rhee reforms, observers say.

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