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Remember Central Falls HS and how the teachers were all fired for low test scores? � Fred Klonsky's blog

Remember Central Falls HS and how the teachers were all fired for low test scores? � Fred Klonsky's blog

Remember Central Falls HS and how the teachers were all fired for low test scores?


The goose and the gander.
It has been many 24 hour news cycles since one hundred teachers were fired at Central Falls High School in Rhode Island.
Superintendent Frances Gallo fired them all with the bullshit claim that they were not performing and that students weren’t learning. In fact, student performance results had steadily improved at the school in Rhode Island’s poorest town. Many observed that the real reason for the firing was that the union wouldn’t simply roll