Today's lesson: charters do not outperform unionized schools Coalition for Public Education/Coalición por la Educación Pública

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Today's lesson: charters do not outperform unionized schools  

Confronting the anti-teachers' union myth with, you know, facts

By Ben Joravsky @joravben

CEO of UNO Juan Rangel and Mayor "Rahmbo" Emanuel

Brian Jackson/Chicago Sun-Times

The teachers' strike was barely over when a Tribune editorial hit the streets ripping unionized schools and lauding nonunion charters, starting with one run by UNO, a Mayor Emanuel favorite. 

"Fuentes isn't a traditional Chicago public school, but part of the United Neighborhood Organization network of charter schools, run under different rules without union teachers," the editorial reads.

Students there "outperform students in traditional