DCentric

Good morning, DCentric readers! While you were watching “Glee”, we were trawling for links:

Michelle Rhee to announce resignation “After more than three years in the job, Rhee’s tenure already is the longest of any D.C. chancellor or superintendent of the past two decades. Measures of student performance generally improved during her time in the job but sagged in a round of test results released in August, a month before the primary vote.” (voices.washingtonpost.com)

WaPo Invites Anti-Gay Editorial For National Coming Out Day “The truly galling thing, of course, is that Perkins is happy to share this opinion on any day of the year, but the WaPo thought that this would be a good thing to run on a day specifically given over to the support of the LGBT community. But then, 2010 has been a banner year for anti-gay sentiment at the paper. When the National Organization for Marriage took on Washington, DC’s support for marriage equality, the Washington Post was happy to endorse their chosen emissary, Delano Hunter, in the Ward 5 council race against incumbent Harry Thomas.” (Huffington Post)

Survey Asks DCPS Middle Schoolers If They Are Transgender “On the one hand, there is an argument to be made about the validity of research asking children whether they identify as transgender or whether they’ve ever had sex after drinking alcohol or getting high…Of course, in a city where the HIV/AIDS rate is sky high and a majority of cases are the result of heterosexual sex and drug use, there’s plenty of reason to believe that knowing whether pre-teens are engaging in either would be very valuable information. (DCist)

Curbside Cook-Off in Photos One of the captions: “Brother and sister Ronan (age 3) and Maeve (age 6) took a break to eat their pizza from DC Slices while sister Emma (age 9) and father Colin waited in line at District Taco. “I want a popsicle and ice cream,” said Ronan. “You can only have one,” admonished Maeve. If Maeve could open her own food truck she’d sell her favorite snack, “grapes and strawberries.”” (brightestyoungthings.com)

Food Truck Envy: Should You Jump on This Hot Food Trend? A Food Truck entrepreneur speaks: “The biggest risk is your truck failing. From a risk management perspective, it’s a really bad business to be in. If one thing breaks, which is your truck, you’re done. Let’s say you have a crash. You’re out of business for a large number of weeks. It’s not like you can build a new truck in a week. It’s going to take you three to four months to build a new truck. Your truck is your life.” (American Express Open Forum)

Memory Decline Accompanies Earlier Retirement, Study Finds Semi-good news for people who can’t retire because of the economy? “The researchers find a straight-line relationship between the percentage of people in a country who are working at age 60 to 64 and their performance on memory tests. The longer people in a country keep working, the better, as a group, they do on the tests when they are in their early 60s.” (The New York Times)