Remainders: Michelle Rhee’s bids adieu to D.C. schools - Today was Michelle Rhee’s last day as Washington, D.C.’s schools chancellor. (GOOD) - D.C.’s teachers union conceded that Rhee didn’t make up the budget gap. (WaPo) - One of a teacher’s top students is struggling in her other, ...
City official and biggest critic find slivers of common ground Put the Department of Education’s Deputy Chancellor for Accountability Shael Polakow-Suransky in a room with Diane Ravitch, one of the city’s most outspoken critics, and you might reasonably expect sparks to fly. But when NYU’s Wagner Education ...
Who enrolls in a troubled school? Meet four Columbus freshmen Infuriated by the union’s success in barring the closure of 19 public schools, Mayor Michael Bloomberg wondered to reporters last month why any parent would send their children to a “failing school.” At Christopher
