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The big news last week was Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s presentation to the D.C. Council of her five-year action plan for DCPS, which included ideas like a parents’ academy designed to get parents to be involved in their kids’ education, and the creation of “theme” high schools for technology, foreign language, or gifted students. The Post has more, or you can download the entire plan here.
Rhee also spoke about new discipline policies to address the rash of highly publicized recent school violence, telling the council that funding should be spent on peer mediation and conflict management, rather than filling schools with guards that create a hostile environment.
Oh, and she might not be finished firing principals this year.
(Speaking of school violence, the Washington Times editorial board offers its take.)
The City Paper’s education issue had lots of good stuff, particularly Mike DeBonis on Rhee’s love/hate relationship with the Post, and Marina Koestler Ruben’s profile of Ying Yu, D.C.’s Chinese immersion charter school, where the kindergarteners sing “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” in Mandarin.
The contract stalemate and D.C.’s “assault on tenure” continues to get national ink, most recently in the Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune, and Newsweek. Oh, and the Georgetown Hoya.
Been a while since you read a Rhee profile? Try ABC, the Wall Street Journal, or this op-ed in the Post, which cautions her to “think less like a Teach for America sprinter and more like a long-distance runner.”
Don't think any of those DCPS teachers care about improving? Read this.
The D.C. Education blog has word of a new petition supporting school choice that’s making the rounds, and Slate thinks it spies a trend in powerful D.C. women named Michelle.
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I certainly hope Rhee gets Mayor Fenty his chamomile tea promptly, or she could end up being the next one fired.
I'd sure like to fire Rhee.... an email about what a great job she's doing.
Seriously though, she really has lost the plot. Fun to watch.
The entire Fenty administration has "lost the plot."
Are you sure there ever was a plot? For either of them? With her, it's a lot of "ready, fire, aim," and with him, it's just "fire."