Resigned

Monday, Oct. 25, 2010

    • Washington schools chancellor Michelle Rhee's broom-wielding appearance on TIME's Dec. 8, 2008, cover infuriated the city's teachers, who saw it as a sign of her desire to fire them en masse. The reform-minded chief resigned Oct. 13 following a failed re-election bid by Mayor Adrian Fenty, who appointed her to the position three years ago.