Between A Rock & A Union-Space

Michael Lee-Murphy:

If you were going by the current public relations efforts from Connecticut's teacher unions or charter school advocates, you would either think that charter schools are union-busting, anti-labor bastions, or that teacher unions are the biggest obstacle to education reform. But that's not the case at two schools in southeastern Connecticut, where charter school teachers are themselves union members.

At both New London's Interdistrict School for Arts and Communication (ISAAC) and Norwich's Integrated Day Charter School (IDCS), the school's teachers are part of a union affiliated with the Connecticut Education Association.

ISAAC's teachers joined the CEA in 2005, eight years after opening. IDCS opened in 1997 and at the time was one of only six charter schools in the country endorsed by the National Education Association, the national affiliate of the CEA.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 3, 2012 3:39 AM
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