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The lengths that charter schools go to when their teachers try to form unions.

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Ninety-three percent of charters are non-union. This is part of their business plan. Teachers work long hours and turn over frequently. This keeps costs low.  Sometimes charter teachers try to form a union. The management fights them, as big business did decades ago. This article in Salon  shows how "charter management fights unions by intimidating teachers, even calling in cops. Teachers have no rights." So interesting.

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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