[etni] D.C. school system fires 241 teachers

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D.C. school system fires 241 teachers
CNN - July 24, 2010

Washington (CNN) -- The District of Columbia public school system
announced Friday that it is letting 226 employees go for poor
performance under the education assessment system IMPACT.

Another 76 employees will be terminated because of licensing issues,
schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee said in a news release. Of the 302
employees who are losing their jobs, 241 are teachers, she said.

"Every child in a District of Columbia public school has a right to a
highly effective teacher -- in every classroom of every school, of
every neighborhood or every ward, in this city," Rhee said.

Rhee said on CNN's "John King, USA" that she thought the cleanup was a
long time coming.

"We want to get along with the union. We want to get along with this
person or that person. We don't want to fire anyone," she said.

"But in the meantime, children have been done a disservice every
single day. We have graduated a generation of Washingtonians who don't
have the skills and knowledge that they need to be productive members
of society because our schools have failed them."

Rhee did not break down the number of teachers fired for poor
performance versus licensing issues.

Under the IMPACT program, teachers were judged on five classroom
observation visits by principals and outside education experts. The
system also rates teachers based on their students' achievement.

In response to the firings, the Washington Teachers Union released the
results of a membership study showing that "a large majority of
teachers believe that IMPACT is not a fair evaluation system."


(To read the whole article, go to -
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/07/23/district.of.columbia.teachers.fired/index.html#fbid=bFuB4NvimhV
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