Michelle Rhee's plan began under segregationists.

Long article but worth the read, showing how the school privatization plan began under segregationist governor Talmadge.

Dear Michelle Rhee, Your School Privatization Schemes Were Hatched By Southern Segregationists

School privatization schemes, hatched during the racist Southern backlash against the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision, are now both undermining the urban public schools that many African-American students attend by siphoning taxpayer money off in neo-voucher schemes that fund white-dominated wealthy suburban schools and are also funding a new segregation regime that discriminates against LGBT students and even teaches that they are hated by God. Michelle Rhee's national pro-school privatization group StudentsFirst appears to be all for it.

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2013/10/18/13397/601