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I was a 37-year-old girl from toledo, ohio. >> and people said what? who? >> yeah. people said hes lost his mind. >> her friends said she had lost hers. >> i have two kids. two daughters, 9 and 12 and they -- i put them in the d.c. public schools. >> the schools were a disaster. test results among the worst in america. chancellor reid quickly learnd that although only 8% of the kids were on grade level, there was something odd about how the teachers were ranked. >> when i looked at the performan...

Toledo, ohio. >> and people said what? who? >> yeah. people said hes lost his mind. >> her friends said she had lost hers. >> i have two kids. two daughters, 9 and 12 and they -- i put them in the d.c. public schools. >> the schools were a disaster. test results among the worst in america. chancellor reid quickly learnd that although only 8% of the kids were on grade level, there was something odd about how the teachers were ranked. >> when i looked at the performance evaluations of the adults i...

Dysfunctional school district in the country where only 8% of our eighth graders were on grade level in mathematics, if you can believe that. 8%. if you were to have looked at the performance evaluations of the adults in the system at that time what you would have seen is that 95% of them were rated as doing an excellent job. >> and the kids were getting nowhere. >> the kids -- it was absolutely dismal results for the children. >> youve improved the results. >> we have. we only have two years of...

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A ground breaking battle is underway that could have widespread impact on your childs education because it strikes a the core of a long standing debate over teacher competency and teacher tenure, ground zero is washington, d.c., where just today, 241 teachers whose students had poor test results got the ax and there could be more. teacher unions are furious. joining us is the woman at the center of this catastrophe, d.c.s school chancellor michelle reid. thank you very much for joining us. first...