This One’s for Katie
in the early morning on Friday, the 20th of June 2008 by Chad
Unions on the attack against charter schools.
The state’s largest school employee union hired a Washington, D.C., consulting firm to craft a public relations strategy for limiting the expansion of charter schools in Delaware.
The Delaware State Education Association commissioned Belden Russonello & Stewart Research and Communications to conduct public opinion research in November and December 2007 and ultimately give recommendations on the group’s policy work concerning charter schools.
The 38-page report makes seven recommendations, including not to “attack charters directly,” make funding the main reason for restricting the number of charters and “use teachers to carry the message.”
“This is a jihad against charter schools,” said Greg Meece, president of the Delaware Charter School Network. “DSEA is trying to smear and tear down charter schools. It’s an all-out furor against charter schools.”
And here’s the real reason for the attack:
Unlike district teachers, charter school teachers aren’t required to be union members. Consequently, the union has few charter members because they don’t see the advantage of being unionized, said Meece, who also is the school director at Newark Charter School.
Is it they can’t stand the competition? Nah, it’s because the union doesn’t have power over the teachers in charter schools. While they might not have a coupla big thugs show up to break some legs, they’re still going to pull all the same dirty underhanded stunts they can.
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June 20th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Notice how the state pushes anti-charter school legislation off until summer vacation?
When the rumors of the two pieces of legislation hit our school in mid-May, parents immediately wrote their representatives. And how did my lovely representative respond to such an outpouring of support - we were told to “shut up”. Evidently, we flooded the system. And, they certainly didn’t want to hear from us.
I know that all charter schools are not the same, but our charter school is incredible. The kids that just completed Kindergarten at Charter are actually ahead of the kids who just completed 1st grade at our “normal” school.
If the teacher’s union actually wanted to improve schools, they wouldn’t be trying to close our school, they’d be taking notes…
June 21st, 2008 at 9:16 am
My question is, does anyone actually believe that teachers unions help the kids in direct ways?
Does anyone actually believe that when they do things like this that they have your kids best interests in mind?