D.C. Schools Insider: December 19, 2010 - December 25, 2010

Gray taps outsiders for two top schools posts

Breaking a streak of tapping local talent to join his Cabinet, Mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray named an aide to Newark Mayor Cory Booker to be the city's deputy mayor of education, and an education guru who has worked in Wisconsin, Atlanta and Chicago to be the new state superintendent of education.

By Washington Post Editors  | December 22, 2010; 1:33 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (6)
 
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Gray taps outsiders for two top schools posts

Breaking a streak of tapping local talent to join his Cabinet, Mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray named an aide to Newark Mayor Cory Booker to be the city's deputy mayor of education, and an education guru who has worked in Wisconsin, Atlanta and Chicago to be the new state superintendent of education.

By Washington Post Editors  | December 22, 2010; 1:32 PM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
 
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Kwame Brown keeps education 'whole'

D.C. Council Chairman-elect Kwame Brown (D) said this morning that he will keep education oversight within the council's Committee of the Whole, where all 13 members will have a voice and a vote. Brown said the city's strapped finances...

By Washington Post editors  | December 21, 2010; 10:31 AM ET  |  Permalink  |  Comments (0)
 
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