Hold Your Booing--Michelle Rhee Has Left the Stadium
One of the employees from Michelle First sent out an email to subscribers that included this observation:"In the end, Michelle’s critics weren’t demonizing her because they were horrible people."How true. The real reason is that Michelle is a horrible person! A farewell from Salon, with an assessment of Rhee's legacy.
Little Eva Moves to Wall Street
from Juan Gonzalez at the Daily News:Eva Moskowitz, the firebrand chief of the city’s fastest growing charter chain, isn’t just backed by Wall Street, she’s officially moved there — with Wall Street-type salaries to boot.Last November, Moskowitz, who for years boasted of opening her Success Academy Charter Schools in the city’s poorest neighborhoods, quietly shifted her corporate headquarters from
8-27-14 Schools Matter
Schools Matter: "TeacherTown" Now Paying Charters Over $80 Million Per Year in Projected Enrollment CashNot only is Shelby County and the State coughing up over $80 million each year for corporate reform schools whose test scores are, for the most part, the same or worse than the schools they replaced, but almost $20 million of that is for enrollment that never materialized. In 2013-14,
