Michelle Rhee - New Teacher Project

New Teacher Project

In 1997, Rhee founded and began serving as the CEO of The New Teacher Project, a non-profit which within ten years of its founding, had trained and supplied urban school districts with 23,000 mid-career professionals wanting to become classroom teachers. The Project has mainly served New York, Chicago, Miami and Philadelphia. Beginning in 2000, the Project began redesigning the D.C. school's recruitment and hiring processes.

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