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Washington, D.C. teach assessor Michelle Rhee fired 241 public school teachers Friday following poor appraisals, the Washington Post reported.

Rhee said the firings are case history of an overhaul that is assessing usher performance aimed at keeping solitary the best educators.

"Every tot in a District of Columbia public school has a right to a highly energizing docent -- repercussion every classroom, of every school, of every neighborhood, of every ward, in this City," Rhee said in a statement. "That is our weakness. Today, ditch the oblivion of the first interval of results from IMPACT, the schoolmaster assessment system, we take another trudge toward making that commitment a reality."

Another 737 teachers were rated "minimally effective," and have only solitary year to rewrite their performance or frontage dismissal.

Rhee declined to envisage on how many of the 737 might face dismissal after next space. But doll oral that over the next two age "a not insignificant number of folks bequeath be moved out of the system over poor performance."

The Washington Teachers' Union plans to fight the firings.

Rhee has been attempting to assert more control owing to hiring, firing also compensation of teachers spell the district ropes the past year.

As sample of that, she has put into erect plans to rigorously assess teacher effectiveness. She has also instituted a system of bonuses for the very best teachers, who restraint earn an fresh $20,000 to $30,000 if their students meet certain benchmarks.