Principals Fight Firings

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
The end of the school year is just around the corner but work is only beginning for DC principals fighting School Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s recent decision to fire twenty-four of their colleagues, reported Dion Haynes Saturday on the Washington Post’s DC Wire. This “decision appears to be arbitrary, personal, political and potentially discriminatory,” Aona Jefferson, Executive Vice President of the Council of School Officers Local 4, told Haynes. Local 4 is asking the DC City Council to investigate the firings and for Rhee to release the list of all the principals affected.