The Trouble With Charter Schools and Unions
It has been documented, at least on this website, that charter schools do not hire union teachers because these charter schools want to make a profit and the greatest expenditure on the balance sheet is the cost of the teaching staff, particularly if they are unionized.
An example of this is a story that was recently written about Opportunity Charter School in Gotham Schools,After Union Bid, Fired Charter School Teacher Allege Retaliation.
Earlier this year, a small group of determined teachers at Opportunity Charter School marched into Leonard Goldberg’s office and confronted their boss.
They carried a letter that detailed their complaints with Goldberg’s response to their recent bid to unionize. Not only had Goldberg refused to recognize the staff’s vote to join the United Federation of Teachers, they said, he had begun waging an anti-union email campaign.
Goldberg, the school’s CEO, declined the letter and ordered them to leave, according to a teacher