ABC Highlights Movement to Loosen Union Rules to Fire Bad Teachers Mor

February 25th, 2011 10:03 PM
 On Friday’s World News, ABC correspondent Ron Claiborne filed a report recounting some of the unreasonable problems faced by school systems when trying to lay off bad teachers as a result of hurdles put up by teachers unions. Claiborne noted one example of a Los Angeles teacher who was fired after five years of effort by the school system, costing $3.5 million. ABC anchor Diane Sawyer, who…

Matthews to Michelle Rhee: Stay Away From Those Ideological Fools on t

December 15th, 2010 6:18 PM
On Wednesday's Hardball, Chris Matthews brought on former Washington D.C. chancellor of public schools Michelle Rhee to discuss the state of public education in this country and praised her for work on the part of students but also warned her to "stay away from the right wing" because she was "too good to be grabbed by some ideological fool." After Rhee explained to Matthews why public school…

Open Thread: Michelle Rhee Shakes Up DC Public Schools

August 2nd, 2010 9:03 AM
Tellingly, it's front-page news when 4 percent of the city's public school teachers are laid off for poor performance. Wall Street Journal writers weigh in:Watch the latest video at <a href="http://video.foxnews.com">video.foxnews.com</a>Thoughts?

'Nightly News' Promotes Paying Children for Public School Success

July 2nd, 2009 11:00 AM
No matter how much money any government - federal, state or local - puts into public education, it's never enough in some people's eyes. A July 1 "NBC Nightly News" segment detailed a new use of tax payer dollars in one of the worst performing, financially struggling school systems in the country - the Washington, D.C. public school system. They are paying school children with taxpayer funds,…