(From The Providence Journal, September 7, 2009)
By JENNIFER D. JORDAN
CUMBERLAND, R.I. — Mayor Daniel J. McKee is Mr. June 2010.
Got your attention now?
McKee is the only New England official to be included in the “Democrats for Education Reform” 2009/2010 calendar, which the organization sent out last week.
The mayor’s appearance comes in recognition of his leadership in starting a new kind of charter school, the Mayoral Academy.
Democracy Prep Blackstone Valley opened Aug. 31, welcoming 76 kindergartners from Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln and Pawtucket, and McKee says he hopes to open a series of the alternative public schools across the state.
Other honorees in the organization’s calendar include U.S. Rep. George Miller of California, who chairs the House Education and Labor Committee; Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty, who is the former boss of Rhode Island’s new education commissioner, Deborah A. Gist; and Mayor Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J.