74 Central Falls High School teachers are on the gallos

Education Action Group Foundation

The nations schools should follow rhode island superintendent gallos example.

Gallo’s recent decision to push past teachers union obstruction and do what’s best for the district’s struggling high school students is a prime example of the bold actions needed to turn around the nation’s failing schools.

Gallo recommended firing all 74 Central Falls High School teachers after the local teachers union refused to sign off on long overdue reforms needed to save the chronically failing school, which has been on the state’s list of underperforming schools for seven years. Less than half of Central Falls High School’s students graduate and only seven percent are proficient in math, state data shows.

Gallo offered to pay teachers $30 an hour for some of the additional duties, and expected them to kick in a bit of their own time to improve instruction. Central Falls Teachers’ Union balked, then demanded $90 per hour for the extra work.

(The teachers union ignored Dr Gallos's warnings that she would take action if extra work was not done by the teachers to improve the students grades. The union ignored her warnings about under performance. So today Feb 24, 2010 letters of termination are being mailed out. Union pressure from around the country is being focused on the "gallos" that have been erected to remove the "bad apple" teachers.

Obama type thugs will try to reverse Dr Gallos decision. It was the correct decision. This type of collective is similar to the collective mindset of the current democrate majority. The mindset is we will do what we want and don't care what you think. It seems poor teacher performance is on par with the obama administration's performance.

America is getting ready to fire obama in Nov 2010. Dr Gallos has fired the bad apple teachers today. I agree.) Story Reports

We believe the situation in Central Falls is a perfect example of the “me first” teachers union mentality plaguing school districts across the country. Affiliates of the nation’s two largest teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, have long opposed virtually any reforms that bring accountability to the classroom, or affect the union’s bottom line.

We are applauding Gallo’s efforts with the billboard above. It should be on display in downtown Central Falls by the end of the week.

We trust her courageous actions will be supported by the state’s education leaders, who charged her with turning the school around. Hopefully, Gallo’s work in Central Falls will serve as a catalyst for other schools to stand up for their students.

It is about time somebody did.

Superintendent Gallo’s actions are tough but necessary. The entitlement mentality and the notion that teachers unions have the right to obstruct critical reforms that will benefit children has got to come to end. Hopefully Gallo’s brave stand will serve as a flash point for other underperforming schools across America.

Virtually every other sector of the economy is being asked to step up, pitch in and help our country through these difficult times. To have a teachers union with its hand out – and penalizing children on top of it – is particularly insulting.

Hopefully Gallo’s actions serve as a shot across the bow of every teachers union that is putting its interests ahead of the children they purport to serve.

Education Action Group Foundation

(The union represented all the teachers. I'm sure not every teachers was a bad apple. The bad apples must include the teachers union. Its all or nothing with this union. The bad apples that were mixed in with the other apples resulted in ALL THE APPLES BEING THROWN OUT. This union representing the teachers works like the federal government. The federal government works on the assumption of a collective and not the individual. This is why obama supports and inforces the collective decision of unions. The collective form of government is communism. Obama represents a bad apple community organizer lecturer who is a union president that represents the collective.) Story Reports

The ONE as obama has been called is the ONE BAD APPLE THAT SPOILS THE BUNCH!