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Former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee and former D.C. Public Schools principal Ximena Hartsock have reunited again to be disrupters in education, this time in the workplace.
While still in stealth mode, Hartsock and Rhee have essentially built two different businesses that work together to help employ the unemployed, seeking to create a national apprenticeship model and address the U.S. labor shortage through their barely year-old startup, BuildWithin.
There’s the software-as-a-service side of the company, which sells a workforce management system to employers to facilitate and manage apprenticeship programs. That side is funded by $2.4 million in pre-seed funding led by Dundee Venture Capital, with participation from…
Read the full story from the Washington Business Journal.
