The Superintendent of Central Falls, Rhode Island high school has fired every single teacher in large part because students are failing and the teacher's union is unwilling to do the extra work needed to turn performance around.
The teachers' union refused to go along with the superintendent's proposed plan for increased workload without enough extra pay. The school was one of the worst-performing high schools in the state.
The Providence Journal reports that that School Superintendent Frances Gallo blamed the union's "callous disregard" for the measures she suggested -- adding that the union leaders "knew full well what would happen" if they rejected the proposed conditions.
The Providence Journal states, "Unfortunately, over the years, the state’s powerful unions have managed to make teacher pay, benefits and other demands the focus of education policy, with students only a poor afterthought. So the performance of Rhode Island’s public schools has been generally poor, severely damaging the state’s economy and undercutting the potential of far too many of its young people."
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