The Examiner’s Leah Fabel has today’s big scoop:

D.C. Public Schools are days away from informing a “sizable” number of teachers and school staff that they no longer have a job in the system because of “ineffective” performance, according to school officials.

The school officials are short on details and specifics, but said the exact number of teachers getting pink slips will be released before the end of next week, Fabel reports.

Poll question: Firing a bunch of teachers two months before an election—good or bad move?