St HOPE is one of private companies Michelle Rhee wants to have take over some DC public schools. She was formerly on the board of St HOPE:

SACRAMENTO BEEAfter a Sacramento High School teacher's report last year that a 17-year-old student told him she was inappropriately touched by Kevin Johnson, Johnson's personal attorney and business partner investigated the complaint for the campus.

State law requires that authorities be notified immediately when school officials learn of such an allegation. But - before police were called in by the teacher - Johnson's attorney, Kevin Hiestand, questioned the girl during an internal investigation, according to interviews and e-mails obtained by The Bee.

Following the school's internal investigation, the student recanted. Sacramento police investigators, who never interviewed Johnson, later found "no merit" to the allegation and declined to pursue the case in part because the girl recanted.

At the time of the April 2007 allegation, former NBA star Johnson served as a teacher, interim principal and head of St. HOPE Public Schools, which oversees the Sac High charter school. Currently, he is challenging Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo in the June election.

Erik Jones, the teacher who made the report to police, resigned over the way the matter was handled by the school.

"St. HOPE sought to intimidate the student through an illegal interrogation and even had the audacity to ask me to change my story," Jones wrote in his May 15 resignation letter.

The Washington DC school is in the first stages of the forced privatization of the school system mandated by the No Child Left Behind Law. It is beyond belief that we are standing by while our public education system is destroyed by disaster capitalism.