Romney Floats Plan to Empower Principals, Light Fire Under Teachers

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Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Bay State s landmark 1993 Education Reform Act by proposing a plan that would allow public school principals to fire up to 10 percent of their faculty. Lest that be too drastic a measure, the plan also empowers principals to send underperforming educators to summer school. The plan came under immediate fire from union officials, who argued&yada, yada, yada.