Education Week- Sean Cavanagh and Stephen Sawchuk
“Another nationwide education advocacy group, StudentsFirst, is concentrating on state policy for now, according to its founder and chief executive officer, Michelle A. Rhee, a former District of Columbia schools chancellor. Ms. Rhee said her 2-year-old organization, which hopes to raise $1 billion in five years, may turn to local elections ‘when we start to home in on states where we’ve passed the majority of our policy agenda and are starting to work with local jurisdictions on implementation.'”(more)