Madison’s proposed Preparatory Academy is making some new changes to their plans for the all-girls and all-boys charter schools
Now it comes out that the prep school backers want to use non-union teachers & staff. In journalism school, this is called “burying the lede.” The real story here is union busting as an excuse for helping “at risk” kids.
The same thing happened in Milwaukee. About 10-15 years ago, the so-called “school choice” voucher proponents teamed up with Dr. Howard Fuller to do the same thing to Milwaukee Public Schools.
Voucher Schools were sold as superior to regular schools. After all of these years with the most extensive “choice” program in the country, independent studies have shown that the performance of voucher schools is about the same as Milwaukee’s “regular” public schools. Even Fuller himself admits that.
There are some good aspects to the prep school proposal, but they can be accomplished within the framework of negotiating with Madison Teachers.
It’s an old story–use a group of underserved minorities with genuine needs as class war pawns with the ultimate result leading to no real improvement and continued erosion of the middle class.
And no. I’m not a teachers’ union member. I’m one of the 99% who is tired of being manipulated by the agenda of the 1%.
Related:
Battleground Milwaukee. Walker’s War Against Public Education from blue cheddar blog
Madison School Board’s Ed Huges can’t wait for teachers’ contracts to expire at SLY’s blog
Chalkboard: Will Madison School Board go for non-union Madison Prep? from CapTimes
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