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Briggs
Fenty didn't waste any time in announcing Gist's replacement: he's picked Kerri Briggs, former Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education. According to a bio released by the mayor's office, Briggs was also part of the team that crafted the original regulations for many of the No Child Left Behind Act's provisions. Briggs's support of NCLB will certainly put her in line with Rhee. Her bio on the U.S. Department of Education site says that she came to Washington as a Bush appointee, and that she's a native of Midland, Texas, the town where former president George W. Bush spent his childhood.
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Let's hope it's not the water in Midland that makes them that way, otherwise I can see the DC school system invading Iran soon... and most of the kids are just too young for that kind of pressure.
Sad to hear Gist go and wasn't she the one that won a kissathon recently? Good at setting standards and a fast kisser - where can you find that combo these days?!
The standard ought to be slow kissing.
Pardon me for working blue, but is this the gal who is going to be under Rhee? I want pictures and video. Oh. oh. baby.
If there's anything this town needs, it's more hot superintendent-on-chancellor action.
Briggs was also part of the team that crafted the original regulations for many of the No Child Left Behind Act's provisions
If they're referring to the Bush Administration's No Child Left Behind Act, it's not a feather in her cap. It was a lousy piece of legislation that did more harm than good.