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 ...

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 ...

The education advocacy group StudentsFirst seems to have raised about $7.6 million between its founding in October 2010 and July 2011, according to tax forms released today by the group. The ...

Michelle Rhee, the controversial education figure and founder of the influential advocacy group StudentsFirst, announced Wednesday that she is stepping down as chief executive of the 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 ...

A foundation associated with the Wal-Mart family fortune has expanded its support for the education advocacy group run by former District of Columbia schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. The Walton ...