Yesterday, after the D.C. Council voted to hold back on some $27 million in D.C. Public Schools funding, Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee wasted no time writing a nastygram [PDF] to Vincent C. Gray and his colleagues.
The letter laid out all the money that would have to be pulled from schools—itemized and broken down by ward. [...]
Looks like Vince-'n'-Victor show has turned into a bit more than a show. More than that, it looks like the baseball ticket feud between the council and Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has given way to conflict much more substantive.
According to a budget report released tonight, Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray is proposing to cut the [...]
Last month, LL covered the sizable personality conflict between D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray and Deputy Mayor for Education Victor Reinoso.
The conflict remains.
On Tuesday, Reinoso showed up before Gray for his office's budget hearing. Among the topics discussed was the charter school facility allotment, which is, rather controversially, being cut by $24 million. Gray [...]
The world-record holder for most consecutive kisses in a minute is no longer employed by the District of Columbia.
WaPo's Bill Turque is reporting that State Superintendent of Education Deborah Gist has resigned to take a similar top job with an actual state—Rhode Island, to be precise.
Turque includes some fun stuff about tensions over Gist's role [...]
So says Examiner's Michael Neibauer. Also read what LL wrote about him earlier this month.
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