Chicago schools cut 775 teachers

About 775 teachers in Chicago public schools learned Friday they are losing their jobs in a purge that district leaders say could improve the quality of instruction in the system's most challenged schools. The teachers were dismissed for various reasons, but the most common was an inability to manage their classrooms. Most of these teachers have been in the district less than five years and others who have worked for longer than that as full-time substitutes.

Principals always have had the right to dismiss teachers who have been in the district less than five years, but the current union contract makes the process easier.

Source: Chicago Tribune