I’m late in posting this, as the last few days have been a whirlwind, but thanks to many of our DFER friends in the DC area for helping us celebrate our launch Monday night at the Hotel Washington.
Special thanks to Rep. James Clyburn, the House Majority Whip, as well as DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee and Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. for joining in the festivities.
USA Today’s Richard Whitmire, blogging on the Education Writer’s Association’s edu-presidential blog, covered the event here.
More on the event (particularly Jesse Jackson Jr.’s speech) in a little while.
UPDATE: Elizabeth Rich, via David Hoff’s NCLB Blog, also has filed a dispatch from the event.
UPDATE II: Alexander Russo, at This Week In Education, now has DFER on his world renowned Hype Alert index and says we’re so new we make KIPP and Green Dot “look like accomplished veterans” in the hyposphere. He also asks a bunch of important questions, which I will answer for him the next time he is drinking our booze!