Dec 13, 2018, 1:25 PM
(Nonprofit Quarterly) By going on strike, the teachers of Chicago’s 15-school Acero network took a step once limited to traditional public schools. Within a week, teachers settled with the network’s management on favorable terms, and their union may have helped eradicate one of the arguments for charters in the first place: the ability to work outside the strong influence of teachers’ unions. A statement from the Illinois Network of Charter Schools saw the strike as an effort “to stifle charter growth and limit innovation and flexibility in the classroom…to enable students to succeed in the classroom and in life.” Just 11 percent of charter school teachers are unionized.
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