Decision to fire all of R.I. school's teachers sad, desperate

03-01-2010

By Valerie Strauss/Washington Post

Finally, a school system has decided to fire all the educators at an ailing school. Why didn't we think of this sooner? Firing some of them hasn't really proven effective in turning around schools, has it? So why not get rid of all of them and start over? The school committee in Central Falls, Rhode Island's smallest and poorest city, voted to fire every educator at Central Falls High School at the end of the school year. The committee did this because about half of the school's students graduate, and only 7 percent of 11th-graders were proficient in math in 2009. At the committee meeting Tuesday night, 93 names were called for firing -- 74 classroom teachers, plus reading specialists, guidance counselors, physical education teachers, the school psychologist, the principal and three assistant principals, according to the Providence Journal. (more...)

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