SOLD OUT - The 5 Year Plan for DC Public Schools - An Evening with Chancellor Michelle Rhee - SOLD OUT

The Cornell Club is pleased to host an evening with Washington DC Public Schools Chancellor, Michelle Rhee ’92.

The evening will commence with a reception at 6:30pm prior to the 7pm start of Chancellor Rhee's presentation. She will discuss the 5 Year Plan that has been outlined for DC Public Schools, noting how DC residents and organizations like ours can get involved. This will be followed by some time for questions and answers.

Appointed by Mayor Fenty in June of 2007, Rhee has more than a decade of innovative education experience, serving most recently as Chief Executive Officer and President of The New Teacher Project (TNTP), which she founded in 1997 to achieve a greater impact on systemic education reform. Under her leadership, TNTP has grown into a national organization that has worked to recruit more than 23,000 new teachers for hard-to-staff public schools across the country.

Her commitment to excellence in education started in 1992 when she joined Teach For America and began a teaching career at Harlem Park Community School in Baltimore, Md. Her outstanding success in the classroom earned her acclaim in the national media. Specifically, Rhee worked with 2nd and 3rd graders scoring at the 13th percentile on nationally recognized standardized tests. By the end of her second year with the same students, 90 percent of them were scoring at the 90th percentile.

Rhee earned her bachelor’s degree in government from Cornell University and a master’s degree in education policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

We hope you will join us for what promises to be an exciting event!