The Future of Urban School Reform
Speaker biography
Michelle Rhee is chancellor of the District of Columbia Public School System. She was most recently CEO and president of The New Teacher Project (TNTP), a nonprofit organization that partners with school districts, state departments of education, and other educational entities to enhance their capacities to recruit, select, train, and support outstanding new teachers for difficult-to-staff schools. Since Ms. Rhee founded TNTP in 1997, it has launched more than forty programs in twenty states and attracted and prepared over 10,000 new, high-quality teachers. Under her leadership, TNTP grew into a national organization that has worked to recruit more than 23,000 new teachers for public schools across the country.


