Teachers to appeal mass firings at RI high school

02-26-2010

By Ray Henry/Associated Press

The entire staff of teachers fired in a radical attempt to improve one of the worst performing high schools in Rhode Island will appeal their dismissals to school authorities, the head of the teachers union said Thursday. The board of trustees overseeing the school system in Central Falls, one of the poorest communities in the state, voted Tuesday to fire 88 high school teachers and other support staff by the end of the year. Other administrators will also lose their jobs. Those teachers will appeal their dismissals to the school district's board of trustees, said Jane Sessums, president of the Central Falls Teachers' Union. She plans to meet with union lawyers and other labor representatives in the coming days before deciding whether to take additional legal action. (more...)

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