Clockwise, L-R: AFT President Randi Weingarten (Warga/NY Daily News), U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (Getty Images), NYCDOE Chancellor Joel Klein (Lee/Bloomberg News), DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee (katemckeon.com)

While impossible to cover all aspects of the contemporary politics surrounding teacher dismissal via wiki-project, this section attempts to focus on the most prominent current issues through the lens of three high-profile urban districts, New York City (NYCDOE), Washington, DC (DCPS), and Chicago (CPS).  These districts are at the forefront of reform with regard to teacher dismissal, and all have different approaches for dealing with instructional staff that are deemed less-than-adequate by their superiors.  In the most direct opposition to these urban districts’ approaches are the teacher unions, specifically the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and its local union ‘shops.’

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