2007-08 academic year), while four of the plaintiffs

were notified in 2009 (at the close of the 2008-09 academic year). Id. ¶¶ 45-46.

               The plaintiffs’ non-reappointments occurred on the watch of defendant Michelle

Rhee, who in 2007 was appointed as the Chancellor of DCPS. Plaintiffs’ basic theory of the case

is that Rhee entered the Chancellorship with a premeditated plan to rid the District’s schools of

many existing administrators, so that they could be replaced with her preferred choices for those

positions. See 3d Am. Compl. ¶¶ 30, 34-35, 55, 65. 3 Furthermore, the plaintiffs allege that they

were replaced by people who were younger and white, rather than African American or



       3
 In Democratic Individuality, I argued that at a high level of abstraction, modern conservatives, liberals and radicals believe that the best economic, social and political institutions foster each person’s individuality. Their differences are largely empirical or social theoretical. All clash with modern authoritarians. I will take up practical issues such as torture and the lineage of the neocons and link them to larger issues in how we conceive a decent regime, locally and internationally.

About Me

I am John Evans professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and author of Marx's Politics:Communists and Citizens (Rutgers, 1980), Democratic Individuality (Cambridge, 1990), Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy (1999) and Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence (Chicago March, 2012).

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