[lbo-talk] DC fires teachers

[James Leveque]

Where is all this policy going, anyway? So Rhee fires over 300 teachers and
admin support and they replace them with, who...? I know that Obama talks as
if highly skilled teachers grow on trees, but Rhee, DC's mayor, Dept. of Ed.
etc. must know that the teachers hired to replace those who got the ax are
going to be mostly young and inexperienced and probably aren't likely to get
any better scores. So what happens when 200+ of those new teachers don't
have high enough scores? Do they get fired too? Do we just have year after
year of mass firings, or is there some kind of endgame?

James

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:30 AM, 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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