Richard Whitmore‘s The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes on the Nation’s Worst School District offers a profile of the rabble-rouser Rhee, fleshing out the public figure with details of her personal life and including an interview with her about what she learned as the embattled former chancellor of D.C. public schools. Sunday, Feb. 20, at 5 p.m. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. Call 202-364-1919 or visit politics-prose.com.
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