Legal Opinion
Brewer v. District of Columbia
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided May 22, 2015No. Civil Action No. 2011-1206PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
KETANJI BROWN JACKSON, United States District Judge
In the fall of 2009, District of Columbia Public Schools (“DCPS”) Chancellor Michelle Rhee decided to fire 233 school teachers pursuant to a purported Reduction in Force (“RIF”) that Rhee maintained was necessary due to budget constraints and poor performance. This DCPS employment action was highly controversial, in no small part because DCPS had just hired 934 new teachers the previous spring and summer, and unlike many of the seasoned, older. RIF-separated teachers, the new hires were mostly people in their twenties who…
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