According to the Washington Post, D.C. teachers may be let go "during their two-year probationary period if they had received negative recommendations from school principals. " The arbitrator ruled that these teachers rights were violated. "They had no opportunity to provide their side of the story," Charles Feigenbaum wrote.
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