D.C. agency to investigate Chancellor Rhee
Anti-Rhee activist alleges conflict in Rhee's negotiations with private foundations for contract funding.
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VALERIE STRAUSS
MCPS selling its reputation to Pearson
Some may call Project North Star a pretty smart deal. I would use less flattering words to describe the deal into which Montgomery County Public Schools just entered with the world’s largest for-profit educational publishing company to nationally “brand” a newly created K-5 curriculum.
D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee. (TWP)