She freely admits to using the media to get her points across and expose problems she believes aren't being adequately addressed internally. She is insistent and impatient about the reluctant pace of change in an exploding bureaucracy responsible for almost four billion dollars and more than 50,000 employees and 360,000 students. Passionate traits have earned Perez a growing fan club among parents, teachers, and taxpayers who believe she is the only one committed to reforming a corrupt system. It makes her mission that much harder to complete. People vote in blocs.
Egos come into it.
That's the way politics is. She doesn't always take advice. She's not afraid of anything. I just don't want her to be a martyr. Perez's detractors say she has so alienated insiders with her public criticisms that they have effectively shut her out of the system as much as possible.