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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.

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