A vote to fire all teachers at a failing high school

02-25-2010

By Katie Zezima/New York Times

A plan to dismiss the entire faculty and staff of the only public high school in this small city just west of the Massachusetts border was approved Tuesday night at an emotional public meeting of the school board. Jane Sessums, president of the Central Falls Teachers Union in Rhode Island, said the board had “not been willing to bargain.” The board voted 5 to 2 to accept a plan proposed by Schools Superintendent Frances Gallo to fire the approximately 100 faculty and staff members at the chronically underperforming Central Falls High School on the last day of this school year in June. The plan will also create a new school governance structure and requires the high school’s new teachers to take part in “professional development” that meets federal standards. (more...)

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