Broad and Gist Rebuffed: Central Falls Teachers Keep Their Jobs
That was Eli Broad's perky plant as Rhode Island's Superintendent of Schools in February, shortly after the mass firings that oligarchs like Broad and Gates believed would usher in a new era of corporate rule in public schools. Looks like Deborah Gist (Broad Academy Class of '08) has crow to eat if the scoop by Valerie Straussand the story at HuffPo have it right:
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — A school district that gained the support of President Barack Obama for promoting accountability after it fired all its teachers from a struggling school announced on Sunday it had reached an agreement with the union to return the current staffers to their jobs.
The two sides said a transformation plan for Central Falls High School for the coming school year would allow the roughly 87 teachers, guidance counselors, librarians and other staffers who were to lose their jobs at the end of this year to return without having to reapply. More than 700 people had