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Activists Targeting U.S. Schools, Backed By Big Bucks

Reuters | Posted 05.16.2012

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By Stephanie Simon May 15 (Reuters) - During her tumultuous three years at the head of the Washington D.C. public schools, Michelle Rh...

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Leaders of New Group Have an "Interest" in Education

Gail Robinson | Posted 04.13.2012

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Increasingly privatized education -- with charters, consultants and competition -- offers more opportunities for investment and profit-making. Its proponents have a special and vested interest in the policies they promote.

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State Senate OKs College Profs To Teach High School Without Training

Posted 04.03.2012

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Anyone teaching in a college could be automatically eligible to teach in high schools, according to a bill passed by the Tennessee state Senate Monday...

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Education Absent From The Election

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.06.2012

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It's Super Tuesday, and Ohio kindergarten teacher Nicole Kessler is frustrated. Budget cuts turned her life upside down this year: To save money on bu...

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How Much Do City Students Know?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.07.2011

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The report card on America's urban schools is in, and the grades aren't good. On Wednesday the U.S. Department of Education released the results of...

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Michigan Senate GOP Legislators Move to Make Recalls Much More Difficult

Patricia Lesko | Posted 02.05.2012

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Michigan Senate Republicans want to tighten the rules so that a legislator's votes cannot be grounds for recall, as was the case with recalled legislator Paul Scott.

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Meet America's New Education Lobby

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.23.2011

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Meet the new education lobby. It's ambitious, expansive and, in some cases, modeling itself after sprawling single-issue lobbying organizations lik...

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Pennsylvania Reform Plan Receives Mixed Response

Posted 12.12.2011

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett unveiled a four-part education reform proposal Tuesday morning that has since received mixed reactions. At a news con...

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Michelle Rhee's Key Hire Finds Difficulty In Diffusing Union Distrust

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.07.2011

WASHINGTON -- Attempts to bridge the divide between self-styled education reform groups and teachers unions, backed by progressive organizations, hit ...

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State Representative Resigns, Drops Campaign Plans To Join StudentsFirst

Posted 10.31.2011

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Michigan Democratic state Rep. Tim Melton is leaving office and moving to California to join Michelle Rhee's education reform group StudentsFirst. ...

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Teachers Union Defends Michelle Rhee Attack Site

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.29.2011

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In the eyes of Steven Brill, the American Federation of Teachers building a website attacking Michelle Rhee and masking its origins is worse than Rhee...

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Starbucks CEO Withdraws From Conference At Anti-Gay Church; Michelle Rhee Does Not

HuffingtonPost.com | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 10.11.2011

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Update: On Thursday, Willow Creek Rev. Bill Hybels told audience members at the Global Leadership Summit that Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz did not sp...

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Michelle Rhee: You've Got To Fight For Our Schools

Posted 08.07.2011

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Controversial education reformer Michelle Rhee sat down with AOL to discuss the state of America's public schools and how her organization StudentsFir...

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Joining Forces With Former WTU President George Parker to Benefit Kids

Michelle Rhee | Posted 07.18.2011

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I recently shared my views on unions with the former head of the Washington Teachers Union, and he said he thought the unions had to become more reform-minded. "Huh," I thought. "That doesn't sound like the standard union line."

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From the Fall of Cathie Black to the Mirages of Michelle Rhee: A Bad Month for Corporate Ed Reform

Sue Peters | Posted 06.14.2011

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Between Black, Rhee, Sheffield and Goodloe-Johnson, it has not been a good month for the corporate education reform crowd.

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Why I Support Teachers' Right to Collective Bargaining

Michelle Rhee | Posted 05.29.2011

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The problem is not collective bargaining. The problems arise when unions use collective bargaining to push for policies that devalue great teachers.

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(Education) Inception

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.25.2011

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after reading Michelle Rhee's two newest efforts to launch her own form of "Inception" -- her organization's inaugural policy agenda -- I see her fundamental misunderstanding about the power of ideas.

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WATCH: Michelle Rhee Explains 'U.S. Education System In Crisis'

Posted 05.25.2011

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Former Washington, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee appeared on CNN's Parker Spitzer Dec. 15 to share her views on the state of the American educ...

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The Magical Populism of Michelle Rhee

Jose Vilson | Posted 05.25.2011

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How she's been promoted as a students first education reform is definitely a work of prestidigitation and legerdemain. She'll defy examination and deceive you again.

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Compton Parents Are First to Enact Parent Trigger

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Parent Trigger is an amazing tool for change because it empowers parents to make decisions on behalf of the single most important stakeholders in education reform: the students.

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Michelle Rhee: Why I'm Launching StudentsFirst.org

Newsweek | Posted 05.25.2011

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After my boss, Washington, D.C., mayor Adrian Fenty, lost his primary in September, I was stunned. I had never imagined he wouldn't win the contest, g...

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