A research center warned Charleston school officials that it might be a mistake to gauge teachers' effectiveness with a test that was designed to measure students' progress.
Charleston County school leaders don't know how many of their worst teachers are fired because of poor performance, and many of those who do receive bad evaluations continue to teach in district classrooms, according to district officials.
The Post and Courier last week published a database of teachers' performance rankings based on student improvement, the first time such information has been made public locally.
Nothing is more important to children's education than the quality of their teacher, but far too often, sub-par teachers are neither fired nor receive constructive evaluations or training that could make them better.
