and doing away in large part with tenure, putting in its place teacher performance pay. but fenty wants a rising star, as you mentioned is now in the fight for his career. we caught up with him. you asked me whether we would make the decisions we made around education reform now knowing everything we did? i say absolutely, yes. 100 times out of 100. i was elected to do what s right for the city and not what s politically popular. and that s what we did fixing and the great thing is our t our schools. schools are better off for them. fenty acknowledged to me yesterday that the aggressive reforms have cost him in the polls, but he, as you heard there, isunapologetic saying d.c. students and schools have ffered for too long, candy. a and kate, just curious, why should the rest of the country care about what happens in this race?ou obviously the folks in d.c. care, the metropolitan area, what about the rest of the country? is it basically because of this