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... largest privately sponsored school improvement programs in recent memory -- several teacher performance improvement initiatives in more than four states. The program will focus on ... NJ homes sales jump 11 percent in quarter 6. DC Area housing sales jump 7. Las Vegas ... , Gray & Christmas, Inc. announced on Wednesday that planned layoffs at U.S. firms fell for a third straight month in October to ...

... new hires. Merrow also fails to inform his viewers of the catastrophic impact of the layoffs, that one elementry school has no third grade because the only third grade teacher was laid off, that one high school lacks both a ... because the teachers who taught those subjects were laid off. Rhee is trashing the DC school system and WETA’s failure to insist on quality ...

... 39;teacher hires' beginning the second week of November, only a month after the notices of layoffs were given to 388 DC teachers ... is pretty darn amazing given the budget pressures that DC public schools is reportedly faced with. Ever wonder why Chancellor Rhee ... practices given the twenty million dollar deficit DC schools is up against ? Well let me make an educated guess why this administration ...

... seats available, furlough days for educators and support staff, and layoffs of employees and outright closures of entire departments; and ... result in increased class size, increased testing, teacher accountability measures which do not take into account many factors, and the creation of tiered ... for Solidarity Day III March and Rally in Washington, DC next spring Resolved, that AFT 1021 call on the ...

... day before Thanksgiving, Mayor Mike Bloomberg went to Washington DC and gave a speech in which he basically declared war on ... are excessed and can't find a new job, excessing and layoffs would be based on principal evaluations rather than seniority, ten percent ... tenure decisions to pupil test scores now even though the law says teacher tenure decisions should not be made based on student test ...