i'm rooting for you. >> michelle is michelle rhee. >> michelle rhee is acting chancellor. >> five years.c. schools. >> you had never run a school system before. >> i had never run a school before and that's why people thought that adrian fenty was nuts. i was a 37-year-old girl from toledo, ohio. >> and people said what? who? >> yeah. people said, he's lost his minds. >> her friends said she's lost hers. >> i have two kids, two daughters, 9 and 12, andpy it them in the d.c. public schools. >> the schools were a disaster. test results among the worst in america. chancellor rhee quickly learned that although only 8% of d.c.'s kids were on grade level there was something odd about how the teachers were ranked. >> when i looked at the performance evaluation of how the adults doing. >> how good are the teachers doing. >> right. i found that 95% of the adults were being rated as doing great job. so how can you have a system where all the workers are thinking we're doing great job, you know, a great job for our kids whabld we're producing for them is 8% success? >> she visited schools and saw

i brought the question of, because he made quite an issue, michelle rhee, as part of his campaign againstthe past mayor. and so that's the reason i was wondering if he addressed what he saw since he kept -- >> he did say to me about her, and it's in the book, that he felt she did not understand middle-class black people and that she did not essentially understand what the teacher meant to middle-class black people, that it's a position of respect and the way she talked about teachers and the firing of teachers that he really felt she was tone deaf on that issue. that's what he told me. >> it's still going on. >> hello. you came. >> good evening. >> he told me i couldn't call him mr. dean anymore spent time in 1957 graduate of dunbar spent so happy to see you. >> does everybody know who this is? >> this is colbert king, pulitzer prize winner of the "washington post." let me just introduce you. [applause] >> -- job referred to me as mentor. you refer to me as mr. king. you ratted me out as i was not available for when you came to interview me. i came to say publicly the people of washington

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. >> he made quite an issue of michelle rhee with his campaign against the past mayor and that is why i was wondering if he addressed what he thought? >> he did say about her in the book that she did not understand middle-class black people and did not understand what the teacher met to the middle-class black people is a position of respect in the way she talked about firing teachers and she was tone deaf on that issue. >> that is still going on. >>. >> the evening. >> good evening. >> i am a 1957 graduate of this is colbert king pulitzer prize winner. >> joe referred to me and you referred to me as mr. king and you rectory out that i was not available when you came to interview me. [laughter] i am sorry. i am sorry. [laughter] [applause] thank you very much for a the wonderful book. >> thank you for writing this book i just want to share my father was a graduate and was the contemporary of your grandfather. he thinned graduated summa cum laude day and one of the prizes physics, chemistry, a greek and applied to the army to volunteer for the medical corps and he received a letter back