Obama made it clear the firings would be used as a model to impose his right-wing school agenda on teachers and other school employees throughout the country. This includes merit pay and other “performance-based” schemes, along with plans to shut down thousands of public schools and replace them with privately owned charter schools.
The president said the administration will target the 5,000 “lowest performing schools” in the nation for similar treatment. States would be instructed to identify high schools with graduation rates below 60 percent, he said, and the administration would use $900 million in federal funding to compel districts to implement its strategies to improve graduation rates.
“Strategies like transforming schools from top to bottom by bringing in a new principal,” the president said, “and training teachers to use more effective techniques in the classroom. Strategies like closing a school for a time and reopening it under new management, or even shutting it down entirely and sending its students to a better school. And strategies like replacing a school’s principal and at least half of its staff.”
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Naturally they trash the union although Randi Weingarten didn't sound like she was going to go down without a fight.
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Speaking of the union, it is suing the district over the firings.
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