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When she served as chancellor of Washington, D.C.’s public schools, Michelle Rhee’s policies provoked scorn from Capital City teachers, to put it mildly. Long gone from the D.C. scene, Rhee’s approach is still benefitting D.C. students. “Ninety-one percent of the students on opportunity scholarships graduate from high school compared to 77 percent of the students […]

Today, Michelle Rhee announced that she has started an organization called “Students First.”

Michelle Rhee and the Washington Teachers Union have reached a tentative union contract which “will boost the average annual salary of a D.C. educator from $67,000 to about $81,000…,” according to the Washington Post.

On May 5, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee told a symposium on innovation in education that she doesn’t care whether education providers earn a profit if they are effective, but when questioned about innovative programs in the District which needed funding, she left out the DC voucher program.

Michelle Rhee, the highly praised/beleaguered Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public school system, is facing another hurdle.

On the surface, both McCain and Obama seemed to agree that school choice should be a cornerstone of reform.

She may have been out of office for more than a half a year but former D. C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is still having an impact on the nation’s capital.

Gerald Graff, a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, presented a defense of Common Core after author and educator Diane Ravitch strongly criticized the federal education curriculum.

“Won’t Back Down” has already had previews at the Republican and Democratic conventions and was “well-received in both places,” the film’s producer Chris Flaherty said at the blogger’s briefing at the Heritage Foundation on September 25, 2012.

Now it’s Barack Obama’s turn at bat at the department of Education and we are looking at more expensive strikeouts.

Scores in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina have jumped considerably at a time when the majority of the city’s public schools have become charter schools.

When local officials accept federal funds for the higher purpose of more qualitative national standards in education, about all they get is the “national” part, a trend now evident as states are urged by the federal government to adopt national curriculum standards known as “Common Core.”