I'd like to better understand why education unions oppose charter schools. I'm not arguing for or against charter schools I just want to understand why unions oppose them.
I understand that charter schools aren't automatically unionized. Many charter schools are small so it would be easy to get enough votes to unionize. I really don't really see any efforts from the public school unions to support charter school employees unionize. If the problem for the unions is that charter schools are often non union why not just help those employees unionize?
I live and work in Minnesota we are the first state to have a charter school law. The unions and the school boards are working together to repeal a law that says if a student attends a character school and the charter school provides their own transportation instead of using district transportation state transportation funding will go to the charter school the student attends instead of the district school the student is not attending. I understand that more state funding means more employees for the union to represent but I feel this issue is being used by school boards to distract the unions. State law requires school boards to appoint a "schools transportation safety director." Many school boards over look this responsibility. If the school boards start appointing the required position employees and students would be more safe and parents would decide on public schools over charter schools.
TLDR: Why do unions oppose charter schools? Why don't unions make more efforts to assist charter school employees to unionize to resolve the problems?
Submitted August 23, 2018 at 09:29AM by SchoolSafetyCampaign https://ift.tt/2Nc1nZV
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