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Vincent Gray defeated Adrian Fenty last night in the closely watched mayoral race in Washington DC. Michelle Rhee has indicated she might leave under a Gray administration. Gray has been critical of many of her slash and burn education policies. This is a defeat for the predominant “reform” movement in education.
Following is a statement from a DC blogger.
What would happen to Michelle Rhee with Vincent Gray as Mayor?
Despite the call of many of his supporters to replace her as soon as he is elected Mayor, D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray was noncommittal the other day when asked what role Michelle Rhee would play in his administration.
“She’s apparently getting married later this year,” Gray said. “Her spouse obviously can’t move here. So the
Vincenzo Milione, a researcher at the Calandra Italian American Institute at the City University of New York, is suing CUNY and the institute’s director, saying he was retaliated against for criticizing what he considers the university’s poor record on recruiting Italian-American employees.
For more than 35 years, the City University of New York, one of the nation’s most diverse higher education systems, has quietly struggled with a minority group that says it has been passed over for jobs. In June, members of the group issued a blistering report the size of a phone book. In July, one employee filed a federal discrimination lawsuit, and some state lawmakers are pushing for hearings this fall into what they see as blatant ethnic bias.
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That's what they've discovered the hard way this fall at what is clearly Seattle's most desirable high school: Garfield, in the Central Area. So many kids were assigned to the school (300 more than capacity), and so many of those have shown up, that some students have been without full class schedules while officials scramble for extra teachers and space for all the bodies.
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Seattle Times staff columnist
When Seattle went back to neighborhood-based schools recently, unwinding 30 years of experiments with integration and school choice, at the core of it all was a simple guarantee.
If you live near a school, inside a boundary drawn by the district, you can go to that school. No ifs, buts or constitutionally questionable whereases.
It turns out it holds true no matter how many kids show up.
That's what they've discovered the hard way this fall at what is clearly Seattle's most desirable high school: Garfield, in the Central Area. So many kids were assigned to the school (300 more than capacity), and so many of those have shown up, that some students have been without full class schedules while officials scramble for extra teachers and space for all the bodies.
"My son has been going for the first period and hanging around with his friends, not really doing much,"
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