Last Updated: 7:22 AM, December 16, 2010
Posted: 12:57 AM, December 16, 2010
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Former Washington, DC schools chief Michelle Rhee said her appointment to the post three years ago was met with nearly identical opposition to that being faced by incoming New York City Schools Chancellor Cathie Black.
"People were [effectively] rioting in the street, saying, 'How can somebody who's never run a school, who's never run a school district, do this job?" Rhee told The Post at a Manhattan Institute event in Midtown yesterday.
"And I think what I showed is that you don't necessarily have to have been a superintendent before," added Rhee, who launched the Students First advocacy group earlier this month.
"She's shown in her experience in
By Geoffrey Dickens | December 15, 2010 | 18:18
On Wednesday's Hardball, Chris Matthews brought on former Washington D.C. chancellor of public schools Michelle Rhee to discuss the state of public education in this country and praised her for work on the part of students but also warned her to "stay away from the right wing" because she was "too good to be grabbed by some ideological fool."
After Rhee explained to Matthews why public school students needed an organization like the one she founded, Students First, to counterbalance the influence of the teachers unions, Matthews congratulated her for not becoming a tool of conservatives.
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The state Board of Education will ask the attorney general to investigate complaints of misconduct surrounding a parent petition drive to turn over a struggling Compton elementary school to a charter school operation, the board president said Wednesday.
The petition drive at McKinley Elementary School, the state's first test of a new law that empowers parents to make sweeping changes at low-performing schools, has been mired in charges and countercharges of deceit and intimidation since signatures, said to represent 62% of the school's
The School Ethics Commission’s annual review of local school board members to see if they've met their required training usually doesn't draw much notice. Typically, it's just a handful of reprimands for the tardy or recalcitrant.
But the release of the decisions from the commission’s November meeting drew a little more attention. There were considerably more reprimands, with the vast majority this year against charter school trustees.
In fact, 15 of the 19 rulings issued overall were to those serving on charter school boards, including four whom the commission recommended be suspended or removed if not meeting the requirements by January.
The rest were official reprimands after the trustees eventually met the requirements, little more than
After receiving several public bashings amid unprecedented political and community pressure for school reform, leaders of the Los Angeles teacher's union said Wednesday that they are not "the villains of education."
Union leaders also laid out their plan to push for teacher-led reforms, as they prepare for a new round of salary negotiations with school district officials.
The teachers union has faced growing criticism in recent months from Los Angeles Unified officials, community groups and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa for opposing key proposals for school improvement, including key changes to teacher evaluations and the hiring and firing process of educators.
At a news conference Wednesday, labor leaders denounced the idea that they are "defenders of the status quo."
"Too often we are painted as greedy and uncaring, well today, we are setting the record straight
A day after the Philadelphia School District suspended several senior managers, the chairman of the state House Education Committee on Tuesday assailed the decision to remove them and criticized School Superintendent Arlene Ackerman's administration for "making up the rules and regulations" on awarding contracts.
"That is absolutely wrong," said State Rep. Paul Clymer (R., Bucks), who has the power to conduct hearings on school operations. "These deals made behind closed doors are going to be history."
Clymer's blistering comments were in response to Ackerman's decision to push aside a Newtown company that had been selected to work on a $7.5 million project to install surveillance cameras at 19 persistently
Several months ago the IEA ended years of annual convention business with the Hyatt Rosemont O’Hare. Following a personal letter from the leadership of Unite Here to IEA President Ken Swanson, the IEA pulled the 1,000 delegate Representative Assembly from that location.
Unite Here has been without a Chicago contract since 2009.
D.C. officials said Tuesday that Dunbar High remains plagued by a litany of troubles: Nearly half the senior class is not on track to graduate, more than 100 students are taking courses they've already passed and the campus is growing increasingly unsafe. (Bill Turque at WaPo)New Chancellor Kaya Henderson said the school's record, as well as classroom observations and complaints from teachers and parents, led her to conclude that the environment at Dunbar had "deteriorated significantly" under Rhee's turnaround plan. Henderson, who was a top deputy under Rhee, said that because Bedford was
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