All teachers to be fired at underperforming R.I. school

Published Feb. 24, 2010 at 5:02 p.m.
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I.—A Rhode Island school district has voted to fire all the teachers at an underperforming school. The Central Falls School Committee voted last night to fire every educator at Central Falls High School at the end of the school year. It’s the only school in the tiny, impoverished city north of Providence. Only about half its students graduate, and only 7 percent of 11th-graders were proficient in math in 2009.


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