"Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The American Federation of Teachers hired Kenneth Feinberg, the Obama administration’s special master on executive compensation, to develop a faster process for dealing with teachers accused of misconduct as part of a series of proposals to improve public education.
The teachers’ union, the second biggest in the U.S. after the National Education Association, needs a “fresh approach” to speed the “glacial process” of these cases, AFT President Randi Weingarten said in a speech today in Washington."