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Opinion: Can Michelle Rhee Save Public Schools?
By Richard Whitmire - AOL NewsIf school reformer Michelle Rhee hasn't yet parachuted into your hometown, chances are she soon will. You'll recognize her immediately -- she's the blunt-talking, young Korean-American woman praised by governors, scolded by teachers unions and pursued by the press. Alex Wong, Getty Images Former Washington, D.C., public schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is taking her successful reform ideas nationwide. As someone who spent the better part of a year researching a book about Rhee, allow me to set the scene for what made her famous in Washington, D.C.; why she's visiting your state; ...
Michelle Rhee, Controversial Education Reformer, to Advise New Florida Governor
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyNo one thought former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee would be out of work for long. Rhee, who could not come to terms with the District's new mayor, has signed on with the education transition team of Florida Gov.-elect Rick Scott, a Republican. Scott's office said the nationally "recognized education reformer" would help him find innovative ways to "create a new education system for a new economy," the Washington Post reported. Tall task, and the transition office did not spell out Rhee's responsibilities beyond advising. But she certainly ruffled feathers in Washington ...
Opinion: Teachers Unions in the Forefront of Education Reform
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Disparaging our children's teachers and blaming teachers unions won't improve public education. While, sadly, bashing unions is the specialty and mission of the Center for Union Facts, as it demonstrated in its AOL News opinion piece last week ("Will Teachers Unions Bend to Education Reform?"), the American Federation of Teachers prefers to focus on concrete solutions that will improve the current state of the American public education system. Do we have to makes changes? Absolutely. But improving schools requires building on what works and replicating it. There are countless ...
Five Reasons Michelle Rhee's Departure Does Not Spell Disaster for D.C. Schools
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyAll right, so Michelle Rhee did not take my unsought advice -- which does happen now and again, even in my own house. (I'd hoped that the hyped-to-the-heavens Washington, D.C. schools chancellor, who has dismissed as "overrated" such niceties as collaboration and consensus-building, might astound us by sticking around and at least trying to work it out with the city's mayor-almost-elect, Vince Gray. Sure, she owes her high profile as the country's best-known school reformer to Adrian Fenty, the incumbent Gray defeated in last month's primary, which effectively decided the race in heavily ...
Did the White House Abandon Michelle Rhee, Education's Superwoman?
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyTwo days before the resignation on Wednesday of D.C. public schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, President Obama took a little-noticed meeting with the young students featured in the hugely hyped documentary "Waiting for Superman." For the reform-minded president, it was, perhaps, tacit approval of the film's message: the documentary lays much of the blame for the country's failing and underperforming schools squarely on teachers, and calls for an overhaul of how educators are paid and evaluated. Teacher pay and evaluation -- as well as turning around low-performing schools -- are, in fact, ...
D.C. Schools Chief Michelle Rhee Stepping Down; Move Seen as Blow to Education Reform
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyD.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has announced she will leave her post at the end of the month, a development seen by supporters as a blow to education reform. The decision comes after weeks of speculation about Rhee's future in the wake of Mayor Adrian Fenty's loss to Vincent Gray in September's Democratic primary election. (In heavily Democratic Washington, the primary is tantamount to a general election.) Rhee, who was hired by Fenty to reform the city's trouble school system, had taken aggressive measures. Last fall, she fired 266 of the city's teachers; this summer, she fired ...
D.C.'s Mayoral Primary: When Losing Can Feel Like Winning
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyThe candidate I supported won the Republican primary for mayor in the District of Columbia, a victory that doesn't signal a change in my politics -- nor his. Adrian Fenty declined the GOP nod, the product of write-in votes, and will leave office in January after a single term as the youngest and, at least in my memory, the city's most energetic and dynamic mayor. I backed Fenty and when he lost his bid for reelection, it felt like a member of the family had taken a big hit. He was my councilman in Ward 4, which is racially mixed, and I've been buying running shoes from his parents' running ...
Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty to Run as Republican? Don't Hold Your Breath
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyIn a curious quirk to Washington's Democratic mayoral primary, defeated incumbent Adrian Fenty has resurfaced as . . . the Republican nominee in the fall campaign for City Hall. That's right. Fenty, a Democrat who lost Tuesday to D.C. Council President Vincent Gray, won the Republican primary that same night without even trying. Turns out 822 Republican voters wrote-in his name on ballots, making him the nominee since there was no other declared GOP candidate for mayor, according to the Washington Post. It is highly unlikely Fenty will take the opportunity for a second-chance campaign. He's ...
Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty Defeated by Council Chief Vincent Gray
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyWashingtonians also rejected the establishment candidate last night, and traded in D.C.'s current mayor, Adrian Fenty, for a guy who spent most of his professional life working on behalf of the homeless and mentally retarded. True to form in the city that John F. Kennedy said had "Southern efficiency and Northern charm," the announcement of DC Council Chairman Vince Gray's Democratic primary win was delayed last night; a full five hours after the polls closed, only a quarter of the votes had been counted. Gray faces no real competition in November, so is effectively the mayor-elect in a ...
Arne Duncan Helps Students Put Best Foot Forward in School Walk
By Emmarie Huetteman - Politics DailyEducation Secretary Arne Duncan, Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty, Washington Chancellor of Schools Michelle Rhee and Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez helped more than 100 students start the second day of school Tuesday -- with a walk. The two-block walk to Maury Elementary School in Washington promoted the Transportation Department's Safe Routes to School program, in which more than 6,000 schools participate nationwide. Officials encouraged walking and riding bikes to school with family and friends as a healthy, safe habit for kids. Click the video below to learn more. ...
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