Skip to main contentRemainders: Michelle Rhee introduces her new advocacy group
By | December 7, 2010, 3:02am UTC - Leonie Haimson said the schools targeted for closure were set up to fail. (NYC Public School Parents)
- Michelle Rhee’s new project: a “grassroots movement” for better schools. (StudentsFirst.org)
- Rhee says she “fell down” when it came to letting good teachers know they were good. (Newsweek)
- Here’s video of Rhee’s big announcement, made on Oprah Winfrey’s TV show. (Oprah.com)
- Sometimes students just inexplicably hate their teachers. (Miss Brave)
- Auditions for the city’s screened arts schools can take forever, Liz Willen reports. (Insideschools)
- Mike Petrilli says Joel Klein’s farewell column suggests he didn’t learn much as chancellor. (Flypaper)
- City Councilman Charles Barron is planning daily anti-Cathie Black protests all week. (Daily Transom)
- Students from two Brooklyn high schools have a championship football game tomorrow. (DN)
- Chair of the State Senate Education Committee Suzi Oppenheimer held onto her seat. (DN)
- Most students will have a hard time meeting the new common standards, a new report says. (EdWeek)