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- 06-14-2011
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By Claudio Sanchez/NPR
For the last year, Central Falls High School in Rhode Island has been under a microscope. Long considered one of the poorest-performing high schools in the state, administrators abandoned a proposal to fire all the teachers as long as they agreed to a so-called "transformation" plan. Now, as the school year winds down, that plan is in shambles. Since August, when the restructuring of Central Falls High School began, 26 teachers have resigned or been fired. Josh Karten is one of them. "I think I've been let go because I'm not a true believer," Karten says. Karten, a history and business teacher for four years here, says he was all for the school's transformation — which called for a much tougher teacher evaluation policy, mandatory training and more time dedicated to struggling students. The plan and the money to pay for it came from the Obama administration's campaign to fix schools labeled "dropout factories." Karten's enthusiasm took a dive after he was put in charge of the "restoration" room, a holding pen for the school's most disruptive students. (more...)
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