Michelle Rhee's Speaking Fee? That will be $50k, please… plus FIRST CLASS EXPENSES. Rhee First!
The following email was originally posted on the NY Education News listserv, in response to an inquiry sent to Michelle Rhee’s booking agent for speaking events, Creative Artists Agency of LA.
*From:* Speakers@… [mailto:speakers@...]
*Sent:* Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:35 PM
*To:* leonieh@…
*Subject:* RE: new client : Michelle RheeHi Leonie
Thanks for your interest. Michelle’s standard fee is 50K plus first class expenses from DC. We encourage all offers, even if not at her full fee, since certain groups are very appealing to her and her number one goal is to raise awareness of the problems facing our educational system and speak on affecting positive change.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me with any questions.
Kind Regards,
Peter
Peter B. Jacobs
Creative Artists Agency
2000 Avenue of the Stars* *
Los Angeles, CA 90067
(P) 424-288-2000
(F) 424-288-3783
pjacobs@…
www.caaspeakers.com
Posted: 5:10PM, March 23, 2011
What an absolute crime that she charges the average yearly teacher salary to publicly bash teachers. Rhee caters her message to the for profit charter school choirs because she is only in this game for the money. She has nothing to offer people who actually want to improve schools.
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[...] expenses,” according to an e-mail from Peter Jacobs of the Creative Artists Agency that was posted online by one of Ms. Rhee’s critics. (Emily Lenzner, spokeswoman for Ms. Rhee, said that the former chancellor charges for a [...]
wow – do you think she puts the entire 50K into her personal checking? lol. I imagine the fee is actually connected to students first, of which she is just a high[est] value speaker.
I’m not suggesting you try on rose colored glasses, but try looking withOUT the conspiracy-colored kind…