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...been called the holy grail of the teaching profession - academic freedom plus job security all rolled nicely into a union contract. But to Michelle Rhee, superintendent of Washington D.C. schools, tenure just means trouble...
...Roughly 2.3 million public school teachers in the U.S. have tenure - a perk reserved for the noblest of professions (professors and judges also enjoy such rights). The problem with tenure, Rhee and other critics say, is that it inadvertently protects incompetent teachers from being fired. The Teach for America alumna, who oversees some 50,000 students and 5,000 teachers, has sparked controversy in the capital by proposing a new contract allowing teachers to earn as much as $130,000 a year if they forgo their tenure rights (a teacher's salary, on average, is less than $48,000; most...
...Ritz 6-3, 6-2. However, just before the first-set tiebreaker in the quarterfinals, Cao was forced to pull out due to injury. Jania, the No. 4 seed in the tournament, won 6-4, 6-1 and advanced to the quarterfinals as well. She then fell to Jessica Rhee from Yale 6-1, 6-2. Cao and Jania’s losses were the first of their collegiate careers. In a lower flight, freshman Louise Laciny won 6-1, 7-5 in her first match, only to fall 3-6, 6-3, 10-3 in the quarterfinals. Freshman Caroline...
...city freeway. Fenty, 37, has demonstrated a Zelig-like ability to appear wherever cameras are rolling--whether at crime scenes or neighborhood block parties. But his boldest move came when he engineered a city-hall takeover of Washington's struggling public schools. He hired a no-nonsense outsider, Michelle Rhee, to reform the crumbling system; it's a huge gamble politically, but the city's future could depend on its success...
...city freeway. Fenty, 37, has demonstrated a Zelig-like ability to appear wherever cameras are rolling-whether at crime scenes or neighborhood block parties. But his boldest move came when he engineered a city-hall takeover of Washington's struggling public schools. He hired a no-nonsense outsider, Michelle Rhee, to reform the crumbling system; it's a huge gamble politically, but the city's future could depend on its success...