About 1,500 people jammed the street in front of City Hall in Providence, R.I., on Wednesday to protest last week's dismissal of the city's entire teaching force.
"I thought the only insanity was in Wisconsin, not in Rhode Island," Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, told the crowd, which raised signs and banged drums.
Weingarten calls the terminations insane, but city officials say they had no choice: The city is facing an estimated deficit of more than $100 million for the next fiscal year, or roughly 20 percent of the city budget.
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/03/134209567/providence-mayor-defends-firings-as-teachers-protest
What do you think about this? I do not know how I feel. This is the only article I have read about this, but I wonder if he saw what is going on in WI and just decided to avoid the hassle?