Cambridge, MA — When current U.S. education secretary, Arne Duncan, headed the Chicago Public Schools in 2004 - 05, the city implemented a new collective bargaining agreement that
covered teacher dismissal policy: principals were given more flexibility to dismiss non-tenured teachers.
When the bell rang for early
dismissal on a recent afternoon at Cold Springs Middle School in Nevada, students sprinted toward the buses while
teachers filed into the library, where posters filled with the names of every child in the 980 - student school
covered the walls.