Good for them! The kids in Detroit need choices.
And I live an interesting life and people tell me things. Like they are plenty of Charters, but they have a high turnover rate because they don't pay squat and with the high turnover they can't get going if you will. Tangent to this is a gnome with an uber-teacher as their better half and they denote the biggest problem is families constantly moving and a kid not being in a school district for an entire year, again no continuity from another source the parents. And that is on top of the kids not being having breakfast etc, in other words dysfunctionality that is hard to overcome regardless if the teacher is Union or Charter.
Now trying to stop charters when you are getting a bailout of $617 large when your real indebtedness approaches 5 times that or 3.5 billion and you want to dictate the terms? Absolute hubris IMHO.
Where is the Detroit Teachers Unions De-Risking / De-leveraging of their Pension Liabilities plan in the face of this debt? I haven't heard of one....