Teachers' union suspends VP handling fired teachers

The Washington Teachers’ Union suspended an official who is handling the bulk of the work from the recent mass firing of D.C. Public Schools teachers. “When you walked out of a meeting with me … it exemplified the fact that you have no interest in performing your duties as general vice president,” union President Nathan Saunders wrote in a memo suspending Candi Peterson without pay “for failure to perform the duties associated with your position.”