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Happy National Teacher Day, Fired D.C. Principals!

Lois Raimondo/TWPNATIONAL TEACHER DAY is celebrated on the first Tuesday of the first full week in May — in other words, today.

Unfortunately, as many as 30 D.C. Public Schools principals are learning in a letter sent Monday that they're losing their jobs when the next school year rolls around.

Ouch.

The Post's Bill Turque and V. Dion Haynes report that D.C. School Chancellor Michelle Rhee declined to name which principals she's dismissing. "Parents will learn this directly from the District, which is appropriate, AFTER we tell the individuals who are impacted," she wrote in e-mails to The Post.

According to Turque and Haynes, Rhee is required to overhaul 27 D.C. schools "that have failed to make adequate progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law. Ten high schools, including Anacostia, Eastern and Wilson, 11 middle schools and six elementary schools are subject to sweeping changes in management and curriculum under the measure."

Calls to Rhee's office this morning were not returned.

Photo by Luis Raimondo/The Washington Post

COMMENTS (1)

  • I'll struggle to dredge up as much pity for them as I can, knowing that before Rhee, DC schools have been simultaneously among the most expensive and simultaneously worst in the country. WAY TO GO, DC PRINCIPALS! Best of luck in your future endeavors.

    By AUA , Posted May 6, 2008 7:06 PM
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