Fred Klonsky reports a tentative agreement in the UNO/Acero charter teachers’ Strike.
“The bargaining team for more than 500 striking CTU members at 15 UNO/Acero charter schools reached a tentative agreement with management just before 5AM this morning. The strike has been suspended.
“Teachers and paraprofessionals will hold a rally and press conference at 1PM today at CTU headquarters to share more details about the tentative agreement, which aligns pay for educators and paraprofessionals with pay scales in CPS schools over the course of the agreement, reduces class and includes language in the contract that sets terms for sanctuary schools for students and families.”
The strike and the tentative agreement underscore what Gordon Lafer wrote in his important book <em>The One Percent Solution. The reason that corporations, ALEC, the Koch brothers, the DeVos family, and the Waltons are desperate to eliminate unions is that they raise the wage scale and even non-union workers have higher expectations. By getting rid of unions, they lower expectations.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The reason the 1% and corporations want to eliminate unions is to lower expectations for workers. The reason they want to be rid of public schools is to lower expectations for everyone that isn’t rich.
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retired teacher: both the posting and what you wrote about lowering expectations gets at the heart of corporate education reform.
All this in the hope that, as has been posted yesterday regarding recent events in Chicago, people won’t even think about such damning facts as the head of ACERO schools “is paid more to run 15 Acero schools than CPS CEO Janice Jackson earns to run more than 500 public schools” or that “UNO/Acero paraprofessionals can be as low as barely ten percent of Rodriguez $260,000 annual salary.”
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YES, indeed retired teacher. And all this is about JIM CROW.
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#nailedit
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Bravo to these brave teachers. They had reached the point where enough was enough. I’m surprised that the administrators didn’t fire all the teachers or at the least fire the union leaders of the strike. They stuck together and stood up for their rights.
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may current strikes and promises of strikes lead to would-be 2020 Presidential candidates having to put their stance upon union support very publicly on the debate table
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