The Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail ran an editorial today, praising the D.C. school system's new teacher contract, which, among other things, eliminates seniority rules and promises pay based on performance, as a model for school reform in the Mountain State. Consider this backhanded compliment:
Washington, D.C., schools had to hit rock bottom to win these changes. Let's hope West [...]

Don't wallow in the District's bad news about teacher layoffs! While hundreds are being booted from schools here under orders from Michelle Rhee, some 250,000 teachers elsewhere across the country are celebrating. Yay!