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Charter votes to join union

Del. College Preparatory Academy educators choose DSEA membership

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Delaware College Preparatory Academy is the first state charter school to choose union representation in more than a decade. / THE NEWS JOURNAL/ROBERT CRAIG

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"We are absolutely disappointed that it has come to this point, but we are moving forward," said Yardise Jones, Delaware College Preparatory Academy school board president.

Educators at the Delaware College Preparatory Academy in Wilmington have voted to join the Delaware State Education Association, making them the state's only charter school educators represented by a union.

Employees of the city school, which has about 270 students, approved joining the union by an 11-5 margin in a secret ballot on Jan. 13. While it is not the first Delaware charter school to select a union for representation, it is the first to do so in more than a