On Monday, current CEO of StudentsFirst and former Chancellor of DC Public Schools Michelle Rhee announced that the group will be shutting down a large part of its operations in Florida, Maine, ...

StudentsFirst—created by former Washington, D.C. schools chief Michelle Rhee—is leading a new wave of “education reform” organizations. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images Three weeks before Tennessee’s ...

It's not only Republicans like Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie who are challenging unions. When it comes to teachers unions, increasingly it's Democrats like Michelle ...

Michelle Rhee has announced that she will step down as head of StudentsFirst, the Sacramento-based national advocacy organization she founded four years ago after resigning as chancellor of the ...

California’s policy efforts to improve student achievement earned an F from StudentsFirst, the Sacramento-based advocacy group led by Michelle Rhee, the former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor.

StudentsFirst, the advocacy group founded by former District of Columbia schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee, has expanded at a steady pace into many states over the last few years, but the group has ...

The Walton Family Foundation, a supporter of school choice and parent-empowerment causes, announced today that it would invest $8 million in StudentsFirst, a school improvement advocacy organization ...

After founding the group to great fanfare in 2010 — on “Oprah,” in fact — controversial education reform activist Michelle Rhee is planning to step down as StudentsFirst CEO, reports the Huffington ...

Following weeks of mounting pressure from LGBT advocacy groups, it was an online campaign initiated by an 11-year-old gay student that finally compelled the education lobbying group StudentsFirst to ...

WHAT WILL REMAIN OF STUDENTSFIRST? Sources tell Morning Education that the 50CAN and StudentsFirst marriage announced last week is not so much a merger as it is an acquisition — and it’s unclear how ...