Rhee Bets on Influx of New Teachers to Turn Around Worst Performing Schools
(Washington Examiner) — More than 70 percent of the teachers and staff at two of the District’s lowest-performing schools were slapped with poor evaluations this year, leaving Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee to bet on an influx of new teachers to help turn the institutions round.
The two schools — Southeast’s Garfield Elementary, and the Hamilton Center for special needs students — joined four others where principals have been granted extra flexibility to push out bad teachers and hire better ones for the fall. The other four schools are Southeast’s Davis and Stanton elementaries, Southeast’s Ballou Senior High, and Northeast’s Luke C. Moore Academy for students at risk of dropping out.
