Rhee Fires 5% of Teachers In D.C.: Nice job, Randi - you gave her the power to do this

[Hannah Bell]

Friday, July 23, 2010



"Michelle Rhee, the reform-minded chancellor who took over the District of Columbia public schools three years ago, on Friday fired 241 teachers, or 5 percent of the district’s total. All but a few of those dismissed had received the lowest rating under a new evaluation system that for the first time held them accountable for their students’ standardized test scores...

All told, the district terminated 302 employees — 226 for poor performance, and 76 for other problems like not having the licensing required by the No Child Left Behind act. Besides the 241 teachers, those dismissed were librarians, counselors, custodians and other employees. An additional 737 employees were put on notice that they had been rated “minimally effective,” the second-lowest category, and would have one year to improve their performance or be fired..."

You can be sure next year Rhee will fire the 737 teachers rated "minimally effective" this year and rate another 750 minimally effective, setting them up to be fired the year after. If she's still around in five years (and god knows, I hope she's not), she'll have an entire new teaching corps in D.C. EVERY teacher will get rated "ineffective" and fired.

And this will be done in state after state thanks to an anti-teacher Democratic administration pushing these kinds of policies and a union like the AFT and union leaders like Randi Weingarten NOT fighting them in the first place. The next place this is going to happen is New York State...

http://perdidostreetschool.blogspot.com/2010/07/rhee-fires-5-of-teachers-in-dc.html

[Hannah Bell]

1. k

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. K/R

Walking out the door. I'll comment later.

[LWolf]

3. k&r

[blindpig]

4. k&r

A bad union may not be as bad as no union at all, but apparently not by much.

[Starry Messenger]

5. k & r

Raandi needs to go. The whole pack of Broad weasels needs to go.

[immoderate]

6. K, R.

--imm

[Reader Rabbit]

7. Why does America have such contempt for teachers?

It makes no sense at all. You can't have a respect-worthy education system when you have no respect for those doing the educating.

[SoCalDem]

9. In the race for the bottom, UNION workers simply must go..

School districts love the flexibility that goes with non-union employees..fire-at-will is the goal..

[amborin]

8. &R