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Do you think we need to purge public schools? What do you think of this move in DC?<\/b><\/p>\n
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Washington (CNN)<\/b> — The District of Columbia public school system announced Friday that it is letting 226 employees go for poor performance under the education assessment system IMPACT.<\/p>\n

Another 76 employees will be terminated because of licensing issues, schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee said in a news release. Of the 302 employees who are losing their jobs, 241 are teachers, she said.<\/p>\n

“Every child in a District of Columbia public school has a right to a highly effective teacher — in every classroom of every school, of every neighborhood or every ward, in this city,” Rhee said….<\/p>\n

“But in the meantime, children have been done a disservice every single day. We have graduated a generation of Washingtonians who don’t have the skills and knowledge that they need to be productive members of society because our schools have failed them.”….<\/p>\n

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Under the IMPACT program, teachers were judged on five classroom observation visits by principals and outside education experts. The system also rates teachers based on their students’ achievement.<\/p>\n

In response to the firings, the Washington Teachers Union released the results of a membership study showing that “a large majority of teachers believe that IMPACT is not a fair evaluation system.”<\/p>\n

Washington Teachers Union President George Parker said, “It is evident from this survey that our members agree that IMPACT is a flawed instrument with many loopholes.”…<\/p>\n

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The 2009-10 school year was the first full year of implementation of the IMPACT program for the D.C. Public Schools.<\/p>\n

Also Friday, the district announced that it has notified 737 employees that if their performance doesn’t improve, they will be terminated after the upcoming school year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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