Caption This Photo, Win Lunch!
The very talented Justin Cohen runs the Office of Portfolio Management for the District of Columbia Public Schools under D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee…in other words, he’s a big gun on the D.C. school scene.
The other day, while on an otherwise uneventful boat trip, Cohen’s vessel was boarded by the U.S Coast Guard for a routine safety search, most likely because in that outfit and shades, Cohen gives off the vibe of an international fugitive or trafficker rather than a school official. Anyway, caption this photo and the best caption gets a free lunch.
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Preparing to search beaches for summer school truants
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Dear Mom,
Just sent Jimmy to swim with the fishes. It’s a beautiful day out, wish you were here.
Love,
Vinny
July 23rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Shoot the fish with an automatic rifle while blogging about it, and you’re using multiple learning modalities while integrating technology.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm
Too late, Chancellor Rhee learned that the Washington Teachers Union had its own Marine detachment.
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:49 pm
D.C. Schools officials prepare to pepper 825 N. Capitol St with long-range automatic weapons fire from Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s new attack Zodiac. The craft was purchased with savings garnered from lay-offs of dead-wood bureaucrats.
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
They told me and Tubbs we were restricted to textbook distribution duty. They didn’t tell us how we had do it!
July 23rd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Cohen. Justin Cohen.
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Dropout or cop-out? Not with Cohen in Charge!
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:32 pm
Miami Vice III - After wrapping up another major bust, Crockett turns his thoughts to the two things that keep him going: chicks and charter schools.
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:44 pm
It’s a two-pronged approach: for positive reinforcement, we’re instating a merit bonus system. To discourage chronic poor performance…
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
JCC shows off the big guns in his Project SAVE photo op.
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:19 pm
1) Taking the big guns to this week’s DCPS performance pay negotiations
2) DCPS: Under the gun. A really big gun.
3) With the lift of the gun ban, DCPS can finally get down to business
July 23rd, 2008 at 5:38 pm
A bolder, broader approach.
July 23rd, 2008 at 7:07 pm
My approach to Portfolio Management: Make them an offer they can’t refuse!
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
“It’s the politics of contraband, it’s the smuggler’s blues.”
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Instead of a free lunch, how about breakfast at Perley’s….
July 23rd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Dear Mr. Rotherham:
It has come to our attention that you are in possession of some photos or a recent military maneuver that I cannot discuss. Suffice it to say, I need you to do your patriotic duty and take that picture off the Internets before it emboldens our enemies.
Needless to say, Dick Cheney and Margaret Spellings know nothing about this in spite of the fact that you can see both of them reflected in Mr. Cohen’s sunglasses.
Thank you for your cooperation and assistance in this matter.
Sincerely,
President George W. Bush
The Decider
July 24th, 2008 at 11:30 am
Caption options:
1) Say hello to my little friend, competition in public education
2) The carrot or the stick: You decide
3) As a DC public official, my message to SCOTUS, ” if we can beat them, join them!”
4) Great schools: By any means necessary
July 24th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Think NCLB has problems? I know how to fix it!
July 24th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Are you excited about the DC-CAS scores, or are you just happy to see me?
July 24th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Another of Sen. Kerry’s “fast boats”?
July 24th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Used car salesman caught posing as student in D.C. Schools’ inaugural semester-at-sea program. Repeated references to a “Good-as-new 2DR ‘92 Lebaron $1200 o.b.o.” in essays tips off program administrators.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
You look like a douchebag, Justin.
July 24th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
or….
Where’s the Bluetooh?
July 24th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Justin Cohen: Taking violence out of schools… and into the harbor!
July 24th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Secretary Colbert said to bomb low-performing schools, but under our differentiated intervention pilot program we strafe them the first time they mess up, and save the bombing part for later.
July 24th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
DCPS expects each person to do their duty.
July 24th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
A native of South Jersey, Cohen is determined that this not happen to a DC public school. Not on his watch.
July 24th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
My jaunty, jolly great (ha ha) nephew:)
July 24th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Randi, did you just ask me if I had my tickets to the show? And then you were going to roll up your sleeves and show me your “big guns.” Yea, that’s funny.
July 24th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Being the “Big Gun” of DC Public Schools- $140,000
Sports Jacket from Kohls-$85
Really cool glasses from the Sunglass Hut-$40
Being Board by the coast guard, photographed and being called a drug trafficker or fugitive while being plastered all over the internet-PRICELESS!
July 25th, 2008 at 8:44 am
Caption to Avoid: Mission Accomplished
July 25th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
In 2028 this photo will come to haunt presidential candidate Justin Cohen.
July 25th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
Growing increasingly tired of all the trash talk coming from those rappers rapping bout how hard they hold down their hoods, Justin decided to show the world that Yatchees can be gangster, too.
July 25th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Ensuring Safe Harbors for DCPS
July 25th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Ensuring “Safe Harbors” for DCPS
(NCLB School Choice Provision, for those of you who are not regular Eduwonks!)
July 26th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
These extra features on the “Munich” DVD are really lame. This collector’s edition is a rip-off.
July 26th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
1.) School accountability contingency plan #43b. Justin case.
2.) Think this staff retreat is intense? You should see Chancellor Rhee’s team in action at 825.
3.) Revolutionizing DCPS. Justin time.
July 26th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Preparing students for the 21st century skills they need to get ahead.
July 29th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
What evidence has poster or Justin Cohen given that he is very talented?
Mr.Cohen has appeared often and lamely, to explain his DCPS employment. So far Justin Cohen and “Portfolio Management” so far, are to education what Pons and Fleischmann were to unlimited energy. (See “Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion” by Gary Taubes.) Pons and Fleischmann were well trained scientists; Fleischmann had had a brilliant career. Justin Cohen?
July 30th, 2008 at 11:20 am
Core Knowledge taking on a new look.