DC Public Schools

Yesterday I was going to blog about the outstanding opinion piece by Colbert King in the Washington Post on Saturday appropriately titled “Beyond Publicity, What is Rhee Producing”. King makes a great point that seems to occur with every rock star superintendent of schools – they make changes and are immediately canonized before we even see the results.

The absolute most effective way to positively impact education is to actually do something in a school - not write about, not attend the countless briefings by the same 5-6 education experts in DC every week - but actually go to a school and help. And so it was with great excitement that I woke my family up at 6:30 am on Saturday to trek in from the suburbs to meet up with a half dozen other ABCTE'rs and help Michelle Rhee and the DC Public Schools on school beautification day.