Frank Smith Says NB: Rhee fires 226 D.C. teachers

Friday, July 23, 2010

Rhee fires 226 D.C. teachers

8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Oh, my goodness. I thought we would never see accountability in the government sector.

Where do we sign up the City of New Britain for IMPACT?; July 23, 2010 at 4:04 PM
Anonymous said...: Why can't we start a program like this in New Britain, and start getting rid of some the dead wood we have lingering in the schools??

Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee announced Friday that she has fired 226 teachers who received poor appraisals under a new evaluation system that, for the first time, holds some educators accountable for student growth on standardized test scores.

"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, of every ward, in this City," Rhee said in a statement. "That is our commitment. Today, with the release of the first year of results from IMPACT, the educator assessment system, we take another step toward making that commitment a reality."; July 23, 2010 at 4:09 PM
Anonymous said...: Maybe we can start with the teacher who hangs around the coffee shop bragging that she never has to lift a finger to do anything because she is protected by the union and the principal can kiss her you know what if he doesn't like it?

I wonder how many teachers like this we have getting paid to do nothing?; July 23, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Anonymous said...: When did anyone hear of a teacher being fired in New Britain--no matter what he or she did?; July 23, 2010 at 4:36 PM
Anonymous said...: A program like this is badly needed here in NB. Some of the best teachers who really care cause they the newest ones were just canned and the old fat cats are safe. It just aint right.; July 23, 2010 at 5:26 PM
Anonymous said...: DC was also the model for the country for a school voucher program that was very successful until Barrack Obama took office and put an end to those poor black children being enabled to attend the same private school his own children attend.; July 23, 2010 at 8:10 PM
Anonymous said...: Teachers Unions Fail to Secure Pork for Public Employees
by Kyle Olson

It appears the millions of dollars the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers spent electing President Obama and a Democratic Congress is turning out to be a bad investment, because the Democrats in power failed to deliver the $10 billion “education jobs fund” for the unions.

Even the trimmed amount, originally $23 billion, was more than election-weary Democrats could handle and they removed the pork spending from the Afghanistan appropriations bill.; July 25, 2010 at 1:12 AM
Anonymous said...: I just watched a PBS special on schools and they said that private schools operate at 1/3 the cost of public schools, so if we had a voucher system in New Britain, the taxpayers would save 2/3 of the current cost for every student that went to the lower cost private schools.; July 27, 2010 at 1:09 AM

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