D.C. Wire Archive: Bill Turque,Education
What grade would you give Rhee?
D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee's resignation will be announced at a news conference tomorrow morning. What grade would you give her tenure leading the city's schools? Vote in the poll below and explain your rating in the comments....
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Christopher Dean Hopkins
| October 12, 2010; 8:03 PM ET |
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Gray campaign 'tabled' at Lafayette
Principals at D.C. public schools are being reminded of the school system's rules regarding campaign activities on school grounds after an incident at Lafayette Elementary School, Bill Turque reports on D.C. Schools Insider. Sources tell Turque that Mayor Adrian M. Fenty was "beside himself" when he saw a Vincent Gray...
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Washington Post Editors
| June 23, 2010; 4:37 PM ET |
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2010 District Election, Bill Turque,Education, Mayor Fenty, Vincent C. Gray
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Rhee campaigning for Fenty?
Sometime this summer, you might answer a knock at your door to find Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee standing there, ready to tell you what a swell job Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has done, Bill Turque reports on D.C. Schools Insider. But if she follows the legal advice she's received, she'll...
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Washington Post Editors
| June 21, 2010; 9:00 AM ET |
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2010 District Election, Bill Turque,Education, Mayor Fenty
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Brown fundraiser for council chairman draws school construction crowd
In the next five years, the District is slated to spend $1.5 billion to reconstruct and renovate the city's schools. Many of the construction companies and contractors that will be tasked with overhauling those buildings were in the room Tuesday night for a fundraiser to toast - and write checks...
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Ann E. Marimow and Bill Turque
| May 26, 2010; 11:06 AM ET |
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2010 District Election, Ann E. Marimow, Bill Turque,Education, D.C. Council, Kwame Brown
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Moving Day for D.C. School News
Starting today, news about Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee and school reform in the District signs off the D.C. Wire and moves to a different address, D.C. Schools Insider. What happens in the city's public and public charter schools resonates not only with parents, teachers, students and policy makers, but...
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Bill Turque
| January 11, 2010; 3:50 PM ET |
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Building The Better Teacher
Anyone interested in the future of D.C. public schools should take a look at Amanda Ripley's new piece in The Atlantic, posted Tuesday. Ripley, whose 2008 Time magazine profile of Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee featured the now-legendary broom cover, reports on Teach for America's (TFA) painstaking attempts to isolate the...
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Bill Turque
| January 6, 2010; 5:26 PM ET |
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