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Rhode Island High School Fires All 88 Teachers, amazing ?

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scathands	quote Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:26 pm
Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 12	http://consumerist.com/2010/02/rhode-island-high-school-fires-all-88-teachers.html Rhode Island High School Fires All 88 Teachers By Meg Marco Do you teach at Central Falls High? Not for long. You've all been fired. The school is one of the lowest performing in the state and apparently the teachers couldn't come to an agreement about how much they should be paid to do something about it. From CNN: “Of the 800 students, 65 percent are Hispanic, and for most of them, English is a second language. Half of the students are failing every subject, with 55 percent skilled in reading and 7 percent proficient in math, officials said. In a proposal based on federal guidelines, Gallo asked teachers to work a longer school day of seven hours and tutor students weekly for one hour outside of school time. She also proposed teachers have lunch with students often, meet for 90 minutes every week to discuss education and set aside two weeks during summer break for paid professional development. ”The two sides couldn't agree on compensation so all the teachers were fired. Some may be rehired. "When we had to move from the transformation model, the next best move was the turnaround model. And that requires us to remove the teachers and rehire, of those who reapply, up to 50 percent," [Frances Gallo, superintendent at Central Falls School District] said. [/url] _________________ I was raised by wolves from a Glasgow shipyard
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SharynS	quote Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:20 am
Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Posts: 2883 Location: the 'puter	Obviously only a small fraction of the whole story. Do we know if the kids who are caught in the middle of the warfare have anything to add? Has anyone bothered to find out, it is their future hanging in the imbalance. _________________ Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself. - Salman Rushdie
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