Friday Churn: Rhee & Spellings show
What’s churning
Michelle Rhee and Margaret Spellings are due in Denver on Sept. 13 to talk about business involvement in school reform. The event is being organized by the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce.
Rhee, former Washington, D.C., schools chief and a familiar figure on the ed reform lecture circuit, was last in Denver in May (see story).
Spellings, now with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and education secretary under President George W. Bush, was in Denver last fall for a screening of “Waiting for Superman,” which features Rhee prominently.
The upcoming event will be Sept. 13 from 10:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. at the Westin Hotel downtown. If you’re
Lobato 9/1: One last speed bump
Colorado’s education commissioner and a top higher education official tried to minimize the cost of education reform during defense testimony in the Lobato school-funding trial Thursday, and time ran out before the state could put its last witness on the stand.
Robert Hammond, commissioner of education, and Matt Gianneschi, deputy director of the Department of Higher Education, were the state’s biggest-name witnesses.
Sen. Keith King, R-Colorado Springs and a lawmaker with long experience in school finance, was supposed to testify in the cleanup position. But other witnesses – and the lawyers examining them – ran long, delaying King’s appearance in the witness chair until Friday. A few rebuttal witnesses and closing arguments also are to