Announcing "Race to the Top": the reality show NYC Public School Parents

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Announcing "Race to the Top": the reality show

by Leonie Haimson

Inspired by a recent news account of the firing of a popular principal, the US Department of Education has announced a new reality show, to be co-produced by the Gates Foundation and aired this fall on MSNBC, called “Race to the Top.”



Each week will feature three inner-city public schools, with large numbers of immigrant, poor, homeless and/or special education students.


These three schools will then compete before a panel of judges, who will decide whether the principal should be fired