By Greg Hazley
Students First, the school reform group led by former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, has brought in a former Obama campaign aide and veteran Democratic PR hand as VP of communications.
The hire of a Democrat, Hari Sevugan, comes as Rhee, the PR-savvy controversial advocate of overhauling public education, has drawn the ire of some Democrats and teachers’ unions with her calls for overhauling public education, appearances with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and pledged support of school vouchers.
Sevugan is a former spokesman for President Obama’s 2008 campaign and was communications director for Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.), in addition to working Dodd’s flirtation with the presidency in ’08.
Sevugan is as a former national press secretary for the Democratic National Committee.
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