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Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee: "We are nowhere near where we want to be." COMMENT Discussion Policy Your browser's settings may be preventing you from commenting on and viewing comments about this item.  

How far apart are D.C. school teachers and Chancellor Michelle Rhee over her drive to dismantle the 20th century, seniority-based structure of employment in the public schools? Well, within 15 minutes of meeting two teachers on opposite sides of the current debate, I heard threats to shut the...  

Relations between the District’s executive branch and the D.C. Council aren’t getting any sweeter—especially when it comes to the D.C. Public Schools. On Aug. 1, DCPS held a systemwide summer-school graduation ceremony at McKinley Tech High School, attended by schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee. No...  

This just in (via e-mail from the NewsHour PR dept.): Friends, When we decided to follow rookie superintendent Michelle Rhee one year ago, we had a feeling that we’d have a good story on our hands. After all, 37-year-old Rhee was new to Washington, a Korean-American in a predominantly African...  

Public school students in the Washington D.C. area showed marked improvements in academic achievement due to the bold education reforms pursued by D.C. Public Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, a ...  

D.C. has some of the worst public schools in the nation. Education Week gives D.C.'s K-12 education an F for student achievement and college prep, and ranks it last in the nation for overall effectiveness.  

A D.C. nonprofit group is offering teachers $1,000 a week to lobby for Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee 's cash-for-tenure program, prompting charges from some education advocates that the payments are ...  

D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray is currently in the midst of slamming, hard, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and his education deputies—DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee, Deputy Mayor Victor Reinoso, and school facilities chief Allan Y. Lew—for bigfooting the legislature. Gray, in some of his strongest...  

Thursday, July 03, 2008 Michelle Rhee Using Gates and Broad $$ to Bribe Teachers Out of Tenure and Seniority What happens when public officials team up with corporations to use tax-exempt corporate foundation ...  

D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. Michelle Rhee should be commended for her determination to implement courageous and innovative educational reforms in the District of Columbia, and Congress should take note as it considers reshaping the No ...  

A proposal by D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to allow teachers to earn more on the basis of their students' performance has drawn fire from the Washington Teacher's Union.  

The plan by D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to boost student achievement could mean big pay raises for teachers willing to risk their seniority.  

Some DC Public School teachers gathered for an informational meeting yesterday with DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to give her a chance to spell out one of her plans to attract and keep quality teachers.  

A proposal by D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to allow teachers to earn more on the basis of their students'' performance has drawn fire from the Washington Teacher''s Union.  

Last week, we told you about D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s controversial new merit pay plan for teachers, as well as the impressive jump in DCPS test scores, both of which continued to provoke opinion throughout the weekend. Rhee’s compensation plan, under which teachers could choose...  

Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee's goal is to put music, art and physical education instructors in all public schools.  

Continuing on a path of tearing up the old way of thinking in DC public schools, Chancellor Michelle Rhee is looking at a really changing the teacher pay structure in the city, at the expense of time-honored ...  

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee has the same corner office used by the previous seven superintendents who have tried, and failed, over the past decade to overhaul the city's troubled school system.  

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, seeking more than $200 million from the private sector over five years, has presented potential donors with a plan that offers significant new details about her vision for transforming the city's foundering education system.  

"Michelle A. Rhee, the District's schools chancellor, has made a bold proposal [Metro, July 3] to substitute incentive pay for tenure on a voluntary basis for experienced teachers and to effectively eliminate ...  

Money can't buy you love, the saying goes. But can money buy you a great teacher? We are about to find out - ' if D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee pushes through her version of a teacher's contract.  

... programs and high-performing teachers -- it also shows that Rhee anticipates no more than 500 additional students enrolled in public schools by 2013. ...  

Rhee's Budget Plan May Have Unintended Consequences: The Post reports that schools chancellor Michelle Rhee's plan to get every DC student access to gym, ...  

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee today released preliminary data showing significant student achievement gains throughout the city, the clearest indication, she said, that the numerous controversial measures she introduced her first year in office are working.  

For Nancye Suggs, the call from D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's office about nearly two dozen schools she planned to close was bittersweet: Suggs said that she was heartbroken about the loss, in one fell swoop, of so much history but that she was ecstatic Rhee was offering her a chance...  

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee announced yesterday that she plans to fire 250 teachers and 500 teacher's aides who were unable to meet a June 30 deadline to obtain certification.  

By V. Dion Haynes Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 3, 2008; Page B04 D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee is proposing a contract that would give mid-level teachers who are paid $62,000 yearly ...  

Principals at some D.C. schools that demonstrated a dramatic increase on this year's student achievement test credit the gains to programs they implemented after a push from Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee.  

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee is proposing a contract that would give mid-level teachers who are paid $62,000 yearly the opportunity to earn more than $100,000 -- but they would have to give up ...  

By V. Dion Haynes Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 4, 2008; Page B04 D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee announced yesterday that she plans to fire 250 teachers and 500 teacher's aides who were ...  

DC School Chancellor Michelle Rhee is proposing salary hikes over $100,000 for teachers.  

The D.C. imbroglio over Chancellor Michelle Rhee's proposed plan to boost the salaries of teachers willing to give up tenure rights has been like watching a nail-biting show on performance pay unfold.  

Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's pay proposal is the key to her school overhaul. COMMENT Discussion Policy Your browser's settings may be preventing you from commenting on and viewing comments about this item.  

Principals are in place for the upcoming school year in all of D.C.'s public schools, officials announced Wednesday.  

By Joseph I. Lieberman Monday, July 21, 2008; Page A15 Michelle Rhee should be commended for her determination to implement courageous and innovative educational reforms in the District, and Congress should ...  

A study by Parents United for the DC Public Schools, a coalition of public education advocates, says Chancellor Michelle Rhee's plan to put music, art and physical education instructors in all DC public schools ...  

The plan by D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to boost student achievement could mean big pay raises for teachers willing to risk their seniority.  

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, August 8, 2008; Page B01 The president of the Washington Teachers' Union yesterday all but ruled out acceptance of a proposal by D.C. Schools Chancellor ...  

Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 7, 2008; Page E06 D.C. Public Schools has named Troy Mathieu, a former athletic director at Grambling State University, its new director of athletics.  

Pamela Constable reports on health and nutrition outreach to immigrant Latino families in the Washington, DC, metro area through local schools, clinics, and community centers.  

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, August 6, 2008; Page B02 A community group that supports D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's proposed salary and bonus package for teachers has ...  

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, August 3, 2008; Page C04 D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee, seeking more than $200 million from the private sector over five years, has presented ...  

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee says she plans to fire 250 teachers and 500 teacher's aides who did not meet a certification deadline.  

The plan by D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to boost student achievement could mean big pay raises for teachers willing to risk their seniority.  

Marion Barry as chemistry teacher for a day. COMMENT By Elissa Silverman Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, July 25, 2008; Page B01 Marion Barry has always taken an interest in education.  

Washington Post, 7/23/2008 "In the midst of a contentious and politically turbulent first year as D.C. schools chancellor, Michelle A. Rhee drew near-universal acclaim with one goal: to place music, art and ...  

By Bill Turque Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 23, 2008; Page B01 In the midst of a contentious and politically turbulent first year as D.C. schools chancellor, Michelle A. Rhee drew near-universal ...  

As D.C. teachers debate a proposal by Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee for big pay increases tied to improved student achievement, one of the nation's most ambitious experiments with teacher ...  

Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 16, 2008; Page B01 The D.C. Council unanimously approved emergency legislation last night that ends the strictest handgun ban in the country and voted 12 to 1 to ...  

By V. Dion Haynes Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 10, 2008; Page B01 D.C. public school students made significant achievement gains during the past academic year, according to preliminary test data ...  

From the Washington Post : D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee is proposing a contract that would give mid-level teachers who are paid $62,000 yearly the opportunity to earn more than $100,000 -- but they ...  

Washington, D.C. - School kids and their parents may be in for a surprise this fall.  

Fresh on the heels of the $800k they received to improve their emergency management DC's public schools land another $750k . The Collaborative for Education Organizing, led by the Community Foundation for the ...  

Chancellor Michelle "The Hammer" Rhee has put pen to paper and is giving the DC Council a written pounding over $83 million of modernization funds.