Posted on 04/09/2011 11:06:50 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
In a trend that worries charter school operators, teachers at 12 of Chicago’s charters have formed unions over the past two years, and the Chicago Teachers Union is seeking to organize all 85 of the schools.
Union leaders say the growing charter movement is changing the landscape of public education and, with its disdain for unions, could leave teachers without a strong voice on issues like working conditions, teacher evaluations and curriculum.
Administrators and operators are battling back, arguing that unionization could undermine the basic premise of the charter school model: that they are more effective because they are free from the regulations and bureaucracies that govern traditional public schools.
Unionization of charter schools is a major step for the Chicago Teachers Union. Though charter teachers in other cities have formed unions, Chicago is one of the first where the public school system’s major union has directed the effort, according to the American Federation of Teachers.
The unions at the 12 charter schools are affiliated with the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff, which is a joint program of the C.T.U., the Illinois Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers. At eight of the schools, teachers have contracts, at two they are in negotiation and at two they are fighting to be recognized by their school administrations.
“At some point, we would like all the charter schools to be part of C.T.U.,” said Jackson Potter, the union’s staff coordinator.
There were no charter school unions in 2008, when the Chicago Teachers Union formed its Charter Outreach Committee to knock on doors and help charter teachers organize.
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Why can't the Democratic party stop destroying hope for America's inner city children?
it wont work because they wont be able to unionize ALL the charters. the ones they do unionize will eventually go out of business just like most union private enterprise in the US has.
Unions are only effective these days when they target a monopoly that they cant completely kill, just bleed. like government.
More then likely the real money isn’t in the public sector these days,not with every State pushing cutbacks left and right.
If the commie union thugs move into charter schools, we no longer will need charter schools. They would become redundant and no different than the worthless publik skools we already have too many of.
Home schools, religious schools and private schools have always provided a better education than public schools. The gap was smaller in the past, but it was always there.
My two adult daughters attended both public and private (both religious and non-religious) schools. The best were the private, religious institutions.
A union is only a gang of thuggish extortionists.
Unions are nothing more than a legalized protection/extortion racket. The fact that the unions got their real foothold through an alliance of the democrat party, the CPUSA and the mafia makes it clear that they are as much an enemy to the Constitution as the democrat party. It may come to a point where unions will have to be put down and out of business with extreme prejudice.
FUBO & FAD
I have three sets of grandkids. NONE attend publik skools. One set is being home schooled. The other two go to religious schools. I’m a lucky grandparent. They are all being raised as Americans.
These charter schools better call up Walmart and get some advice before these union thugs destroy them.
That is the point. They want to unionize ALL the charter schools. When that happens there will be no more because they will drive them ALL out of business. Unions only want GOVERNMENT schools because they believe the government, meaning the people, have endless deep pockets to pick.
These unions really are like parasites. They travel in small amount of fecal matter, which gets ingested by a healthy school somewhere. Those with less opposition quickly succumb.
...teachers at 12 of Chicago's charters have formed unions over the past two years, and the Chicago Teachers Union is seeking to organize all 85 of the schools.
They do have a say.
If they don't like it, they can find another job.
Liberalism is a metastasized cancer. All it knows how to do is take over its host and kill it.
Vouchers.
DC had them, lost them to Obama and got them restored by Speaker Boehnor and the Republican Party: the Anti-Slavery Party.
DC has them, why not Chicago?
‘progressive’ like a cancer, growing while destroying all that is good.
Because, as union leaders recently admitted, it is not about education; it is about power. Charter schools are outside their power and prove every day that the unionized school model is an epic failure.
The Scorpion and the Frog
A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, "How do I know you won't sting me?" The scorpion says, "Because if I do, I will die too."
The frog is satisfied, and they set out, but in midstream, the scorpion stings the frog. The frog feels the onset of paralysis and starts to sink, knowing they both will drown, but has just enough time to gasp "Why?"
Replies the scorpion: "Its my nature..."
“Why can’t the unions leave this alone. Why destroy a possible hope for American education?
Why can’t the Democratic party stop destroying hope for America’s inner city children?”
I’ve said it for years, and others are saying it as well, “The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise”. That means stealing anything, and everything from you, and yours for their benefit. They can’t have Charter Schools teaching truth, so they have to steal the opportunity to learn truth from the children, and advance their political agenda.
Labor cartels will wreck charter schools. The labor cartels do not want parents to have input on teacher performance. Without parental input, charter schools will become regular public schools. Teacher turnover is much higher at charter schools because of parent input. I have seen teachers dismissed and reassigned because of legitimate parent complaints. In the regular public schools, parental input is mostly ignored.
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