we all remember these headlines..
but it appears keeping good teachers and canning the poor performing teachers isn't in their contract.. my only question is... what about the children who will suffer a substandard education.. (after all it is about children and education)
DC Schools to Fire Hundreds of Teachers
Poor performance, No Child Left Behind lead to 241 dismissals
Chancellor Michelle Rhee says 241 teachers are being fired for poor performance, the Washington Post reports. Another 737 were rated “minimally effective,” meaning they have a year to shape up or they’re gone, too.The dismissals are part of a national movement, fostered by the Obama administration’s “Race to the Top” grants, to more rigorously assess teacher effectiveness.
but it appears keeping good teachers and canning the poor performing teachers isn't in their contract.. my only question is... what about the children who will suffer a substandard education.. (after all it is about children and education)
Ruling: Fired D.C. teachers must be offered jobs, back wages
The first 75 teachers who former Chancellor Michelle Rhee fired must be given about $7.5 million in back wages and offered positions with D.C. Public Schools, an arbitrator ruled.
The courtsordered D.C. Public Schools to make a 60-day "good faith effort" to locate the 75 teachers, offer them reinstatement and make up two years of paychecks. Saunders estimated that with an average annual salary of $50,000, each teacher would cash in on $100,000 -- costing the government-run school system $7.5 million while the city faces a $545 million deficit in fiscal 2012.
"The arbitrator's opinion did not call into question the reasons why the teachers were separated, only the process," Simmons said. "During their probationary period, the separated teachers did not exhibit the ability to be successful teachers at DCPS."