Sentences with phrase «chancellor michelle»

The current debate between business - minded reformers like Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York and former Washington, D.C. chancellor Michelle Rhee and their critics has often been set up as a...

Public school teachers in the District of Columbia are improving their performance because they're motivated by the possibility of substantial pay raises or because they don't want to get fired, according to an academic study of the groundbreaking teacher - evaluation system implemented by former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee.

Fenty, who served a single term as mayor from 2007 to 2011, previously came under fire for his children's special placement at Lafayette Elementary School by former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee in 2009.

In a panel discussion after viewing of parental - trigger movie «Won't Back Down,» former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee said she sees a difference in union leadership and classroom teachers.

Michelle Rhee Group Donates $ 250,000 to Candidates in LAUSD Races A group led by former District of Columbia schools chancellor Michelle Rhee donated $ 250,000 Wednesday to contests for seats on the Los Angeles Board of Education, adding further political fuel to a battle over the direction of reform efforts in the nation's second - largest school system...

The reports led to heightened scrutiny of former district schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, a divisive figure in education policy who often boasts of score gains under her tenure.

Since it was a school former D.C. chancellor Michelle Rhee had singled out for praise, the news created yet another battleground for Rhee combatants.

An obvious example would be former chancellor Michelle Rhee's retooling of Washington, D.C.'s public schools.

(Incidentally, former Washington D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee instituted a teacher evaluation system a few years ago that had 50 percent of individual assessments linked to student test scores — in courses where standardized tests were given — but her successor, Kaya Henderson, just dropped it down to 35 percent because of problems with the system.)

Okay, so no one was all that surprised when then - Mayor Adrian Fenty (D) laid down the gauntlet as an education revolutionary, first by winning mayoral control of schools, and then by bringing in firebrand chancellor Michelle Rhee.

Additionally, public school chancellor Michelle Rhee requested, and the DC City Council granted, $ 81 million in supplementary operating funding, as reported by the Washington Post.

The New Teacher Project (TNTP) has recently released a new report, Keeping Irreplaceables in D.C. Public Schools: Lessons in Smart Retention, which holds up the reforms begun in DC public schools by former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee as a model for human capital reform.

The union campaign depicts Brown, who leads a group that has filed a New York State lawsuit modeled on the Vergara v. California case that found teacher tenure laws unconstitutional, as the puppet of former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee and Brown's husband, GOP policy adviser Dan Senor.

Created by former Washington, D.C., school chancellor Michelle Rhee, StudentsFirst is active in 18 states, including California.

(In fact, Democrats for Education Reform is represented on the board of Brown's new group, as is StudentsFirst, an education group founded by former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee.)

But in early September, school board chancellor Michelle Rhee told local members of the media that she would encourage the Obamas to send their daughters to a public school such as the Oyster Bilingual School, attended by her own daughters.

Reformers such as former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle A. Rhee argue that for too long, weak teachers have used poverty as an excuse and that an effective educator can transcend circumstances.

The findings validate the reform agenda started in 2007 by former chancellor Michelle A. Rhee and continued by Ms. Henderson.

Henderson is the kinder, gentler version of controversial former chancellor Michelle Rhee.

As former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee wrote the other day in The Washington Post,

But when it came to picking the best education development of the year, the top winner — D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty's defeat and the departure of schools chancellor Michelle Rhee — grabbed only 19 % of the 429 votes.

In DC ~ schools chancellor Michelle Rhee boasted that all subgroups improved reading and math test scores between 2007 and 2010 ~ with low - income and minority high school students showing double - digit gains.

Former DC chancellor Michelle Rhee's teacher - evaluation system left in place by new mayor Vincent Gray without substantial change.

Despite the loss of local elections and the defeat of Washington, D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty (who had appointed the controversial schools chancellor Michelle Rhee), the combined clout of these groups, plus the enormous power of the federal government and the uncritical support of the major media, presents a serious challenge to the viability and future of public education.

According to author Steven Brill, ex — DC school chancellor Michelle Rhee's new group, StudentsFirst, raised $ 100 million within a few months of Levesque's remarks.

But there is a silver lining for DC schools chancellor Michelle Rhee (portrayed as «DC's Braveheart» in a new Education Next profile): her schools, and those in just four states, were the only ones to post gains in both fourth and eighth grades over the past two years.

In Washington, schools chancellor Michelle Rhee is considering a plan that would offer vouchers to special ed students in need of full - time placements.

On Top of the News D. C. School Ratings Up Among System Parents, but Doubts Remain Washington Post 06/22/11 Behind the Headline Mismatch Education Next Fall 2011 According to a new survey by The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation, former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee is viewed more favorably now than -LSB-...]

It's hard to tell whether Washington D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee courts controversy or is merely dogged by it.

Former District of Columbia schools chancellor Michelle Rhee is within striking distance of Ravitch's influence and serves up a steady diet of can - do reform truisms.

The film opens in limited release tomorrow and got a big boost from Oprah Winfrey earlier this week when she brought Guggenheim, D.C. school district chancellor Michelle Rhee (who features prominently in the film) and recent tag - along Bill Gates onto the show to spread the message to an obviously gigantic audience in her farewell season.

Chief among the Republicans» supporters is New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany, a super PAC run by the pro-charter advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY — the state branch of the national education reform organization founded by former Washington, D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee.

With strong mayoral leadership and a passionate commitment to reform from D.C. Schools chancellors Michelle Rhee and Kaya Henderson, DCPS started emphasizing accountability.

Not exact matches

But the fact that the schools chancellor isn't even aware that this ongoing project exists — one year later — speaks volumes about the miles we have to go to turn things around here in the nation's captiol, right outside Michelle Obama's door.

Such a reform is championed by the film's apparent heroine, Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of Washington D.C.'s public schools.

While serving as chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, Michelle Rhee developed an innovative system of teacher evaluation to incentivize high performance and teacher improvement.

The district's controversial chancellor, Michelle Rhee, resigned a year after IMPACT launched, when the mayor who appointed her, Adrian Fenty, lost a reelection bid in a campaign focused on school reform.

You've been with DCPS for six years now, first as deputy chancellor to Michelle Rhee and now as chancellor.

Michelle A. Rhee, left, the chancellor of the District of Columbia's public schools, talks to angry parents last week after a meeting to gather community reaction to a plan for closing some schools.

In a Wall Street Journal interview, she asserts that Michelle Rhee «had a record that is actually no better than the previous two chancellors.»

I'll never forget Michelle Rhee's comment as chancellor: «The last thing we're going to do is get wrapped up in curriculum battles.»

«It's incredibly important to use data to drive education reform efforts,» said Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools.

When I took over as chancellor from Michelle, I initially took it as an interim until they found the person they wanted.

Michelle A. Rhee, the chancellor of the troubled public school system in the nation's capital, soon will have the authority to fire hundreds of workers in the central office after the District of Columbia Council approved a measure today to grant her that power.

In a packed auditorium in northeast Washington this week, Michelle A. Rhee, the chancellor of the District of Columbia schools, faced one of her toughest audiences yet in the six months since Mayor Adrian M. Fenty tapped her to fix the broken school system he now controls.

Michelle Rhee, the chancellor of public schools in Washington, has turned education reform heads across the country by arguing, often loudly, that our current education system puts the interests of adults above the interests of children.

Soon after her widely publicized appointment as chancellor of the Washington, D.C., schools, Michelle Rhee devoted a day to school visits, some of them unannounced.

He cited the growing statistics on Harvard alumni joining Teach for America after graduation and his experience on a field trip to Washington, D.C., during which students met Michelle Rhee, the new chancellor of the D.C. public schools and a graduate of HKS.

Memoirs should be written only by extraordinary people, and as we read Radical, Michelle Rhee's chronicle of her Korean American upbringing, college years, Teach For America experience, tenure as D.C. schools chancellor and now as head of a national advocacy group, we should keep in mind what makes her noteworthy in the education world.

Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools, recently spoke with journalist Lenora Chu about Chu's new book, Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve (HarperCollins).