Michelle Rhee Biography

Michelle Rhee founded StudentsFirst a non-profit organization that works on education reform. Inspired by a PBS special that she saw during her senior year in college Rhee signed up with Teach For America went through their five-week summer training program then worked for three years as a teacher in Baltimore Maryland. The project primarily serves New York Chicago Miami and Philadelphia. Beginning in 2000 the project began redesigning the D.C. schools' recruitment and hiring processes. Michelle first came onto the public stage on June 12 2007 when Mayor Adrian Fenty appointed her to lead the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) a school district serving more than 47000 students in 123 schools. Under Michelle s leadership the worst performing school district in the country became the only major city system to see double-digit growth in both their state reading and state math scores in seventh eighth and tenth grades over three years. The graduation rate rose and after previous steep declines enrollment rose for the first time in forty years.

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