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...year and a half she's been on the job, Rhee has made more changes than most school leaders--even reform-minded ones--make in five years. She has shut 21 schools--15% of the city's total--and fired more than 100 workers from the district's famously bloated 900-person central bureaucracy. She has dismissed 270 teachers. And last spring she removed 36 principals, including the head of the elementary school her two daughters attend in an affluent northwest-D.C. neighborhood...
...measuring student progress. A new Education Secretary could, if he or she so desired, gut the accountability provisions in No Child Left Behind with the stroke of a pen. And in Washington, where the budget is controlled by Congress, Obama's leadership could give Rhee enormous momentum--or shut her down. "It would send a huge message if this Administration actually took a side on where we are with the union negotiations here," she says. The question is which side Obama...
...really disappointed that Harvard, as a University, tried to shut us down,” said Mather House resident Walter E. Howell ’09, who is also a Crimson sports editor. “But we are rising up. We’re going to get crunked...
...problems China faces were directly created by Beijing. Deeply concerned about an economy growing at a blistering 11% or more per year and a spiking inflation rate, the state set out to cool things down last year. That meant introducing new, tougher labor laws and other measures designed to shut down lower value-added production of goods like toys and garments, precisely the area where now, months later, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are losing jobs. In the early 2008 bubbling property market, authorities conveyed to potential house buyers that they would be wise to hold off. "The government...
...reasons tailgates are to be shut down at noon this year is so that more people will be enticed to go into the Game. But undergraduates without tickets will, after noon, be left with nowhere to go. Having just tailgated for nothing, these students will be faced with a decision of going back to their rooms or frolicking around the streets of Cambridge. Neither choice supports our football team, school spirit, or students’ general welfare as much as ending up in the stands would...