Robert Bobb isn’t a name you hear around the District much anymore, even though the man affectionately known as “Bob-squared” served as City Administrator during Mayor Anthony Williams’ second term and was elected to serve as president of the D.C. School Board in 2006. After having pretty much all of his authority pulled out from under him when Mayor Adrian Fenty gained control of the city’s schools, Bobb pretty much disappeared from everyone’s radar…

Via the Examiner, someone has posted a video of D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to YouTube where she openly discusses the obstacles she’s come across in trying to overhaul our troubled public school system. The 12-minute clip shows Rhee speaking to the Democrats for Education Reform about a week ago. She describes the school system as running “counter to the way any good organization operates,” and insists that “the only way” to get to…

As we mentioned in the Roundup this morning, Mayor Adrian Fenty has fired D.C. School Superintendent Clifford B. Janey, and announced this morning at a press conference that he would be replaced by Michelle Rhee, in a new position as D.C. Schools Chancellor. The Post has a good story up already with some details of Rhee’s background: she’s the the founder of New Teacher Project, a nonprofit group based in New York that trains mid-career…