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| 206 D.C. teachers fired for poor performance |
| 2011-07-17 |
| The District on Friday fired 206 teachers for poor performance, a rarity in a big city school system and an extension of former chancellor Michelle A. Rhee’s aggressive drive to upgrade classroom instruction in the nation’s capital. The teachers who were dismissed — about 5 percent of 4,100 who work for the school system — received low scores in the evaluation program known as IMPACT, developed under Rhee before she resigned in October. Although policymakers at all levels of government are putting more emphasis on teacher quality, such large-scale dismissals remain all but unheard of. Collective-bargaining agreements with politically potent unions and cumbersome appeals processes often limit a school chief’s power to fire teachers. Friday’s dismissals remove any lingering uncertainty that Mayor Vincent C. Gray (D) and Chancellor Kaya Henderson would continue personnel policies Rhee left behind. Gray received heavy support from organized labor in his campaign to unseat former Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D), Rhee’s boss. |
| Posted by:gromky |
| #6 Let's have a controlled study. The DC school system or sitting kids in front of a TV w/ Sesame Street. Who will have learned more after 13 years? It would be a wash. Sesame Street is just as Left. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2011-07-17 16:36 |
| #5 Let's have a controlled study. The DC school system or sitting kids in front of a TV w/ Sesame Street. Who will have learned more after 13 years? |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-17 16:28 |
| #4 They will stay fired for as long as it takes for their union reps and lawyers to make a stink. So maybe 2 weeks at most. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-07-17 12:22 |
| #3 They will stay fired. FTA: "Her effort was buoyed by an unusual provision of D.C. law that exempts evaluation systems from collective bargaining. In many other cities, evaluation systems are subject to negotiations." |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-07-17 11:00 |
| #2 Miss Barbara, As always, you speak wisdom. Perhaps a handful (fewer than 40) will remain fired, but the rest will be right back in the classroom, corrupting the 'young skulls full of mush'. And likely those fewer than 40 will find that unemployment will pay even better than their old gigs. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2011-07-17 10:54 |
| #1 But will they stay fired? |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-07-17 10:18 |