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Unionized Charter School Teachers Need Your Support | Edwize

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Unionized Charter School Teachers Need Your Support

AECI teachers need your support
In January 2010, educators at the NYC Charter High School for Architecture, Engineering and Construction Industries (AECI) in the Bronx formed a union at their school to provide a positive and stable school culture for their students. Educators delivered letters to the school’s principal and board of directors that called for a more formal voice in school operations to “strengthen our school community and enhance the educational experience of our students, faculty and administrators.” A few months later the board formally recognized the union, and contract negations began.
Since then educators at the charter school have been working for two years without a contract. The teacher-led