Mayor Vincent Gray told reporters a lot of provocative things this week (pretend we are coughing while covertly saying “SUVgate” and “Sulaimon Brown.” Oldest trick in the book.). But in the carnage, a little education misspeak with big implications slipped by.
On Wednesday, Gray announced that D.C. will fight an arbitrator’s ruling that D.C. Public Schools improperly fired 77 teachers in 2008 because school officials failed to tell the probationary teachers why they were being terminated. Gray also accused Arbitrator Charles Feigenbaum of letting an important meeting slip: “A hearing was supposed to be taking place tomorrow to discuss compensation for the fired teachers,” Gray said. “However, the office of the attorney general was informed late yesterday that the arbitrator never scheduled it. As a result, it has been postponed indefinitely.”
