Almost a year after Michelle A. Rhee was named the chancellor of the District of Columbia school district, she stressed at a May 20 gathering here on educational entrepreneurship that she sees the infusion of entrepreneurial practices and ideas as vital to her work of trying to transform the long -
beleaguered urban system.
The passing of the torch in Cleveland is imminent: This fall, the
beleaguered school district will join the list of large
urban school
systems — including Boston and Chicago — under mayoral control.