Time to unionize charter schools
| By Ken - Jan 29th, 2007 at 3:16 pm EST |
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If you look at the teacher demographics of charter schools it is almost the exact opposite of public schools. The majority of teachers in charter schools have had 5 years or less of teaching experience; whereas the majority of teachers in public schools have 5+ years of teaching experience.
Only a small percentage of teachers in charter schools have 10+ years of experience. Do you think that teachers know something that the public doesn't?
It is my belief that charter schools only pay their teachers the amount they do because of public school competition. If public schools were not there then the pay for charter school teachers would be abysmal.
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Only a small percentage of teachers in charter schools have 10+ years of experience. Do you think that teachers know something that the public doesn't?
It is my belief that charter schools only pay their teachers the amount they do because of public school competition. If public schools were not there then the pay for charter school teachers would be abysmal.
Florida Charter School Teachers Choose a Union by James Parks, Jan 26, 2007 For the first time, charter school teachers in Florida have voted to join a union. Charter school teachers, guidance counselors and other professional staff in the southeast Florida city of Pembroke Pines on Jan. 24 chose the Broward Teachers Union (BTU) to make a better life for their families and to have a voice in educating their students. Calling the vote “an historic day for Florida and the union movement in our county, state and country,” BTU President Pat Santeramo said: From the very beginning, this campaign was driven by charter school teachers because they recognize the value of having union representation, a contract, job security and a voice in their schools.
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This is a powerful step forward for the employees of the "third-rail" of education in America. For the first time there is hope that the unequal charter movement will have to face the music. With this precedent, maybe, the cabal of Colorado Charter Schools will be forced to correct low wages, narrow - ideological - content challenged curriculum, students deprived of intellectual diversity, and cynical exemptions from CSAP/NCLB.