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March 2, 2009
Julia Stiles and Joel Klein: e-mail pals, swapping reform ideas
There’s actually a fair amount of news today, but I want to make sure that this doesn’t slip through the cracks: New York Magazine reported yesterday on a new friendship between Joel Klein, the chancellor, and the actress Julia Stiles.
Apparently Stiles met Klein by interrupting him at a recent party where he was reacting to an Obama speech. Stiles stopped him in order to describe her own issues with the city’s public schools. Then she got embarrassed for getting so excited about the education issue:
Afterward, Stiles, mortified (“I have a lot to say and I was wildly inarticulate”), apologized and awkwardly asked for Klein’s e-mail. He took hers instead, saying “I’ll be in touch.” “I’d seen a couple of her movies, but I couldn’t remember her name,” Klein admitted, but he e-mailed her to follow up. “We’re now e-mail pals. She likes what we’re doing on charters.”
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March 2nd, 2009 7:45 pm
My wife was a TFAer out on the West Side of Chicago from 2000-2002. She taught at one of the schools (Lucy Flower Career Academy, near the Garfield Park Conservatory) where Stiles had filmed “Save the Last Dance” a year or two earlier; some of the students were extras and I definitely recognized places in the school in the movie (gym, cafeteria, etc.). I wonder if her experience filming in a school in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago inspired Stiles to get passionate about school reform.
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March 2nd, 2009 10:38 pm
Perhaps Ms. Stiles could lobby the Chancellor to “Save the Last Dance” program in non-charter schools.
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August 17th, 2009 12:58 pm
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January 10th, 2010 5:48 am
I love julia stiles
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