D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee spent the last couple of days not responding to questions from reporters regarding her controversial comments to Fast Company magazine, but finally gave an exclusive interview to WRC/NBC4’s Tom Sherwood late Monday. While she didn’t name names, as D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray has been calling for her to do, she did offer some more specific numbers on the teachers she said were fired “who had hit children, who had had sex with children, who had missed 78 days of school.”

She told us that one teacher had been on administrative leave for sexual misconduct and that the teacher had been fired as part of the budget purge.

She said six other teachers had served suspensions for various corporal punishment violations. They, too, were included in the list of teachers fired for budget reasons.

Two teachers who had been suspended for unauthorized absences also were on the list.

So that’s nine teachers out of 266 who were fired in October. Without disclosing the names of the teachers in question, however, it’s unlikely Gray is going to tone down his rhetoric on the issue. Here’s what he told WTOP on Monday: “It’s just absolutely horrific that all of these teachers are now branded in this way having been tainted and painted with the same brush.”

Washington Teacher’s Union President George Parker sent letters to Rhee and Mayor Adrian Fenty calling for Rhee to apologize for implying that many of the fired teachers were guilty of sexual or physical abuse.

“Your statement—that through the reduction in force (RIF), you ‘got rid of teachers who had hit children, who had had sex with children, who had missed 78 days of school’—is callous, lacks specificity and, if true, demonstrates a failure on your part to act with all deliberate speed to protect the interests of our students,” Parker wrote. “I urge you to immediately rescind this global indictment of DCPS teachers and to issue a full public apology.”

While Rhee told Sherwood it was never her intention to broadly imply that all of the fired teachers were guilty of misconduct, she stopped short of apologizing for her remarks.

Rachael Brown contributed to this post.