Jeff Canady says he was fired after 18 years because he was an outspoken union activist.
By Perry Stein Perry Stein Reporter covering D.C. education Email Bio Follow April 29 at 6:18 PM Former D.C. schoolteacher Jeff Canady says he is still waiting for a decade’s-worth of pay from the D.C. government — nearly a year after an arbiter told the city to pay up for his wrongful termination.
But the city has not compensated Canady for lost wages, and on Monday, Canady and top local and national union leaders decried the city government at a news conference for what they called its unjust treatment of the teacher. Canady made $80,000 a year as a third-grade teacher when he was fired. The Washington Teachers’ Union said Canady’s salary probably would have increased since then, and it wants his back pay to account for that.
Canady was one of nearly 1,000 educators fired during the 3½-year tenure of Rhee, according to the Washington Teachers’ Union. The teachers lost their jobs over poor performances, layoffs amid a 2009 budget squeeze and new licensing required under the federal No Child Left Behind law.Canady was fired from Emery Elementary, a school in the Eckington neighborhood that later closed. The school system, according to the arbitrator’s decision, said Canady scored poorly on an evaluation system.
Canady, a native Washingtonian, said he has attempted to get teaching jobs elsewhere, but no one would hire him because he was fired from the District.
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