Kurt Schmoke, the former mayor of Baltimore, has been chosen to mediate contract negotiations between Michelle Rhee and the DC teachers union. Schmoke, who's been the law school dean at Howard University since 2003, had a mixed record on education (by his own account and many others) while in Baltimore. ????One interesting wrinkle: Rhee was an elementary school teacher in Baltimore during Schmoke's tenure.
As a Maryland guy, I've wondered about Schmoke's possible reemergence into public/political life. ????Maybe this is the beginning of something?