Teacher unions set sights on charter schools. Uh oh.
4 comments July 27th, 2009
Uh, oh. There’s a cancer growing in the charter school movement — unionization. The teachers unions are on the march and they’re organizing charter schools, including three of 12 schools operated by Chicago International Charter School, which has the School Board’s OK to set up a school in Rockford.
What’s special about public charter schools is that they have longer hours and a longer school year than the regular public schools. They operate outside teachers union contracts.
The unions are moving in on the charter schools now, says this piece in The New York Times, and if they succeed in organizing them, there’s really no point in having charter schools. They’ll be just another version of union schools. Who needs that?
