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 ...

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, the K-12 advocacy group founded by Michelle Rhee that pushes for increased school choice and the end to seniority-based employment decisions for teachers, named Walton Family Foundation ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michelle Rhee, an outspoken backer of changes to the U.S. education system, is leaving her post as chief executive of StudentsFirst, a nonprofit that she founded four years ago. The former chancellor ...