For the second year in a row, a disproportionate number of “highly effective” teachers are employed in affluent, white areas of the District, school officials confirmed.
“We’re continuing to look at that, and it’s a trend we saw this year as well,” said Jason Kamras, chief of human capital for D.C. Public Schools.
In 2010, nearly one-quarter of top-performing teachers were in Ward 3 schools, while only 5 percent taught in Ward 8 — even though affluent Ward 3 has 60 percent the enrollment and eight fewer schools than poor Ward 8 — the Washington Post reported at the time.
Kamras did not have exact figures in an interview with The Washington Examiner, but reiterated that DCPS is using attractive dollar figures to bring effective educators to the poorer parts of the city, and believes in evaluating teachers across the same standard, “like you do with the children.”
While 413 employees were laid off on Friday — 288 for poor scores on the 2011 teacher evaluation tool — 1,213 employees were rated “highly effective” and 4,269 were rated “effective.”
