[lbo-talk] DC fires teachers

[Max Sawicky]

Rhee is still coasting on her rep as somebody who is shaking things up,
which here means being willing to fire people. The Mayor backs her and so
does the putrid WashPost.  I don't follow DC ed so I don't know anything
about what she is actually doing.  The Mayor strikes me as a mini-Obama.

 Same vapid, centrist bullshit.

My wife was in the DC teachers union up to 2003.  It was an AFT local whose
president and a couple of cronies were discovered to be robbing the
organization blind.  They got busted, the local was basically wrecked, taken
over by the International.

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Chuck Grimes <c123grimes at att.net> wrote:


> Washington, D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee announced Friday the
> firing of 241 teachers who did not meet standards set forth by a new
> district-wide evaluation system.
>
> The new system, known as IMPACT, for the first time ties D.C. teachers' job
> performance to their students' performance on standardized tests.
>
>
> http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2010/07/dc-schools-chief-rhee-fires-241-teachers-using-new-evaluation-system.html
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> Amazingly nasty. Why wasn't Rhee fired long ago? Anybody from DC want to
> comment on this?
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