Ouch.

How's this for accountability? From the Chicago Tribune:

The Chicago Public Schools system is proposing a new plan to help "deficient" principals, who will get about a year to improve their performance before facing the ax.

On Wednesday, the Board of Education is set to approve the policy, which creates a system of "support and remediation" for contract principals, who rarely are threatened with dismissal for performance because it is costly to break their four-year contracts.

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Of the 18 principals disciplined in 2005-06, three were fired for performance reasons and one retired. Ten principals came off the list, and four still face possible sanctions this school year, district officials said. One new principal was placed on corrective action so far this year.

The principals currently facing corrective action are at Piccolo, Bass, Bond, Reed and Oglesby Elementary Schools, district officials said.

I'll acknowledge that they didn't name names, but what would you think if you opened your newspaper and saw that the principal of your school was a failure?

And it doesn't seem like it's a far step from naming the principals to naming failing teachers, either. That would be.....mind-boggling.