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Washington chancellor’s departure isn’t expected to slow public school change
- 10-14-2010
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By Sam Dillon/New York Times
With Michelle Rhee’s decision to resign Wednesday as the Washington schools chancellor, the movement to shake up the nation’s public schools is losing perhaps its most visible leader. But changes were sweeping through the halls of public education before Ms. Rhee took over the leadership of the Washington schools three years ago. So her departure seemed unlikely to slow that momentum, experts said. “This movement has become so much bigger than one person,” said Timothy Daly, president of the New Teacher Project, a nonprofit group Ms. Rhee founded in 1998 to help school districts hire more effective teachers. Ms. Rhee was a polarizing chancellor, especially after she fired hundreds of teachers whom she called ineffective. The teachers’ union campaigned against the man who hired her in 2007, Mayor Adrian Fenty, and he lost last month’s Democratic primary. (more…)
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