 The Coach - Episode 8
Darrin Slade is a veteran middle school principal and like most school leaders he’s worried about academic achievement. Principal Slade talks about what it takes to lead an urban school, working for Michelle Rhee and the challenges and rewards of his job.
  
Produced & Edited by Selly Thiam / Duration: 8:41 |
 The Contract Challenge - Episode 8
Michelle Rhee and DC Teachers’ Union President, George Parker talk about negotiating a contract with much of the education world watching.
Produced & Edited by Selly Thiam / Duration: 9:53 |
 Dance of the Lemons - Episode 7
Michelle Rhee continues her sweeping changes with a teachers union contract that aims to rid the system of ineffective teachers. But the union itself has to approve it. What will happen to those deemed ineffective?
Produced & Edited by Selly Thiam / Duration: 9:28 |
 Life in the Hot Seat - Episode 7
DC Teachers Union President George Parker is charged with negotiating the two-tiered contract that Michelle Rhee has proposed. But the union seems divided and Parker has 4,000 teachers that he has to answer to.
Produced & Edited by Selly Thiam / Duration: 14:57 |
 No Regrets - Episode 6
Michelle Rhee talks with John Merrow about her controversial first year as DC public school's chancellor and what she has planned for year two.
Produced & Edited by Selly Thiam / Duration: 16:29 |
Not the Only Kid on the Block - Episode 6
George Parker, president of Washington DC's Teachers Union shares some astonishing confessions about the lack of accountability in the union and how that's affecting competition between public and charter schools.
Produced & Edited by Selly Thiam / Duration: 13:07 |
 The Critics - Episode 6 Michelle Rhee has the full support of DC Mayor Adrian Fenty in her quest to overhaul the DC Public School System. What do DC parents, community activists and attorneys have to say abou her tactics?
Produced & Edited by Selly Thiam / Duration: 16:22
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 A Step Back in DC Schools Reform? - Episode 5
William Lockridge served as an elected official on the DC school board for over 9 years. Now through mayoral control, the school board has been dissolved leaving Mr. Lockridge and other community members with little say in what is happening in DC schools.
Produced & Edited by Selly Thiam / Duration: 11:56
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 A Principal's Perspective - Episode 4
Principal L. Nelson Burton must raise test scores at Washington, DC’s troubled Coolidge Senior High School – but he says that half of his teachers are not effective.
Produced by Jane Renaud. Edited by Christine Renaud / Duration: 12:04
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 DC Mayor Weighs in on Reform - Episode 3
Mayor Adrian Fenty and Chancellor Rhee are proposing to fire central office employees and close 23 schools. Mayor Fenty talks candidly about their controversial plan.
Produced by Cat McGrath. Edited by Christine Renaud / Duration: 8:10
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 Community Engagement & Reform in DC - Episode 3
Parent advocate Margot Berkey is thrilled about the prospect of lasting school reform in Washington, DC. Berkey discusses the ramifications of what she sees as a lack of transparency on the part of DC schools leaders.
Produced by Jane Renaud. Edited by Christine Renaud / Duration: 10:03 |
A Union Leader in the Hot Seat - Episode 2
George Parker, president of the teachers’ union in DC, is now negotiating a new contract Michelle Rhee. Rhee wants to make it easier to fire ineffective teachers, but Parker says she already has enough power.
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& Edited by Jane Renaud / Duration: 12:10
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Michelle
Rhee Takes On DC - Episode 1
Michelle Rhee has big plans to reshape the district’s
traditionally unresponsive central office and boost student
achievement.
Produced
& Edited by Jane Renaud / Duration: 15:26 |
