Monday, May 17, 2010

Fire First, Then Re-Hire Later

This story just gets weirder and weirder!

I mentioned, back in March, that a Rhode Island high school in which students had historically done very poorly in standardized testing had seen its entire teaching and administrative staff fired in an effort to improve things there. Now it turns out that all of those fired are being re-hired, following some negotiated changes to the teaching format there!

I've heard that some teachers' unions are traditionally difficult to get concessions out of, but I really hope this sort of approach doesn't become the new norm in such situations.

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