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

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Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:34:28 +0300
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From: E F Hisgen <elaena@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: D.C. school system fires 241 teachers

Here's a question:  If teachers are laid off because students perform
poorly, then why isn't this Ms. Rhee held accountable for the alleged
poor performance of her teachers?  Can't she do a better job of
training her employees?  Or does the concept of accountability run its
course by the time it reaches Ms. Rhee's level?  I enjoy the posting
from ETNI.  Thank you,  Elaena


ETNI wrote:
>Comments?
>
>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


E. Hisgen, J.D.
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