D.C. teachers pressed to perform

Accountability, Education — By Online Editor on July 28, 2010 at 10:53 AM

(NCAP) With a new union contract under her arm Chancellor Michelle Rhee, of the the District of Columbia, has fired 241 under-performing teachers. Recent teachers’ union negotiations have given teachers their own report cards, with large raises and the boot on either ends of the scale. 

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