The teachers’ union “strongly supports charter schools“.

The nation’s two largest teachers unions talk up their support of charters, but their actions tell a different story. The successful charter concept is rooted in autonomy and accountability  - that, folks, is not what’s in the fine print on the union label.

As entrenched and deep-pocketed political behemoths, the unions’ first line of attack is against charter school legislation and laws themselves, seeking to prevent their passage or implementation (as they did successfully in Washington), to get strong laws watered down into weak ones, or to have them killed in the courts (as they tried to do in Ohio). In state after state, however, the courts have upheld the constitutionality of charter school laws against union plaintiffs. So…

If the unions can’t kill a bill outright, they seek to limit authorizing authority to local school boards, majorities of whom they often already have in their pocket. It’s a fact that 52 percent of the nation’s charter schools are authorized by local school boards, but states in which the local school board is the sole authorizing body account for only 604 of the nation’s 4,600 charter schools.

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