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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Online Review and Rating for Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge Begins | The White House

Online Review and Rating for Race to the Top High School Commencement Challenge Begins

by The White House

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Rating period ends Friday, April 29 at 11:59 PM ET

WASHINGTON – Public review and rating of the six high school finalists in the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge begins today and ends Friday, April 29 at 11:59 pm ET. Rating of the schools will be based on a short video from each school, produced with support from the Get Schooled Foundation, along with an essay on how each school is preparing its students to win the future and achieve the goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020.

President Obama taped a video message encouraging the public to go towww.whitehouse.gov/commencement and rate the final six schools. Schools will be rated on a scale from 1 to 5 (with 5 being the best). The three schools with the highest average ratings will be announced on Monday, May

What It Takes To Lead a Fortune 500 Company, A Start-Up, and, Yes, Schools | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice

What It Takes To Lead a Fortune 500 Company, A Start-Up, and, Yes, Schools

by larrycuban

Advice from leaders of successful corporations, sports teams, and school districts is like nectar for hummingbirds: sweet tasting but fleeting. A recent entry into the nectar-producing industry comes from The Corner Office where Adam Bryant interviewed more than 70 CEOs and leaders of non-profits representing “decades of collective experience … [who] learned firsthand what it takes to succeed.” For all of those boards of directors eager to choose their next CEO and school boards dithering over who the next crackerjack superintendent (Newark and Atlanta are searching) should be, here are the five qualities that Bryant distilled from his interviews:

Passionate Curiosity: [it is] “indispensable, no matter what the job is.You want somebody who is just alert and very awake and engaged with the world and wanting to know more.”

“In every business I’ve worked in, there’s been a lot of cost and value locked up in things that are deemed to be

Michelle Rhee - The 2011 TIME 100 - TIME

Michelle Rhee

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By DAVIS GUGGENHEIM Thursday, Apr. 21, 2011

PETER YANG/AUGUST

School can be an intimidating place, one in which competitiveness and power cliques can sometimes turn downright nasty — and not just for the kids. Michelle Rhee, 41, knows that as well as anyone — and has handled it better than most. The former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., school system and the founder of the Students First advocacy group, Rhee has distinguished herself by her single-mindedness and her dedication to kids.

Anyone who works in the political world quickly learns that personalities and competing agendas have a way of

Reach 10 for Education - 10 Days, 10 Calls, 10 People #edFL #legFL

Reach 10 for Education in Jacksonville Florida - 10 Days, 10 Calls, 10 People

We have 10 days to make a difference. Just 10 days to tell our Legislature to Fund Education First, Cut it Last.

On Monday, April 25th, the Legislature begins the process of negotiating the Florida budget, and if they don’t hear from you the anticipated cuts to public schools could get worse. Tax cuts for corporations could get bigger on the backs of our schools.

Cuts to education have been coming for years. They are not new, they are not necessary, and they are NOT acceptable.

In a year when Tallahassee can give a tax break to companies like Expedia.com, how can we stay silent as they cut basic core services at public schools?

It is time for public education supporters to be heard. Call 10 friends and ask them to reach the 10 elected officials listed on this website.

We have just 10 days. The time is now. Call today.

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50th No More - Helping Florida's Kids Get the Education They Deserve

Call or email our state's elected officials and tell them to Fund Education First, Cut it Last!

Governor Scott: 1-850-488-7146
rick.scott@eog.myflorida.com
Sen Haridopolos: President of Senate 1-850-487-5229
haridopolos.mike.web@flsenate.gov
Rep Cannon: Speaker of House 1-850-488-2742
dean.cannon@myfloridahouse.gov
Sen Wise: Education 1-850-487-5027
wise.stephen.web@flsenate.gov
Sen Simmons: Pre-K - 12 Appropriations 1-850-487-5050
simmons.david.web@flsenate.gov
Sen Alexander: Budget 1-850-487-5044
alexander.jd.web@flsenate.gov
Rep Grimsley: Joint Leg. Budget Commission 1-850-488-3457
denise.grimsley@myfloridahouse.gov
Rep Coley: Pre-K - 12 Appropriations 1-850-488-2873
marti.coley@myfloridahouse.gov
Rep Proctor: Education 1-850-488-2977
bill.proctor@myfloridahouse.gov
Rep Fresen: Ed. Competitiveness Subcomm. 1-850-488-4092
erik.fresen@myfloridahouse.gov

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Rochester’s gain is Chicago’s loss. Rahm’s choice is a disaster. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Rochester’s gain is Chicago’s loss. Rahm’s choice is a disaster.

by Fred Klonsky

Hyatt owner Penny Pritzker.

Union Hyatt housekeeper.

Chicago’s mayor-elect has made a hell of a blunder in his first appointments to run CPS.

Even The Chicago Tribune describes Brizard’s tenure as superintendent of Rochester, NY as “mired in questions and controversy.” Graduation rates, test scores and teacher morale all plummeted.

His choice of Penny Pritzker to sit on the school board? Amazing. Approaching a year of negotiations with the Chicago Teachers Union, the new mayor selects a rabid union hater as a member of the board.

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