a ground breaking battle is underway that could have widespread impact on your child's 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 make your case, why did d.c. schools feel the need to do this? >> when the mayor and i took over the schools three years ago, we were facing a situation here in washington, d.c. where only 8% of the eighth graders in the city's schools were performing math on grade level, yet if you were to have looked at the performance evaluations of the adults in the system at the same time you would have seen that 95% of them were being