Charter schools come and go. The money keeps flowing from villainthropists and the U.S. Congress, yet charter schools keep folding, just like businesses. Remember Eastern Airlines? Braniff? Pan Am? Stores, brands, they come and go, like charter schools. This failing charter chain had the nerve to name itself for Cesar Chavez, a fiery labor leader who would never have put his name on institutions that defy everything he stood for: the spirit of equity, respect for workers, the belief in unions. He certainly would not have lent his name to an enterprise supported by Red State governors, the anti-union Waltons, the DeVos family, and the Koch brothers.
Time to get woke!
AFT’s Weingarten on Closure of Chavez Schools in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON—American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement after Cesar Chavez Public Charter Schools for Public Policy announced it was closing its middle schools and consolidating its two high schools on one campus. Chavez educators found out their schools were closing via calls from the media:
“Cesar Chavez would be appalled that management at the school that proudly bears his name has treated children, their parents and their educators with such utter contempt. These are children, and their education is not a business to be run on a profit margin. The first priority should always be children and families—but Chavez management, by these actions, has put them dead last.
“Parents were not informed. Teachers were not consulted. The community was not engaged. Many found out via inquiries from reporters—the administration didn’t even have the honor or decency to convey the news directly.
“A perennial problem with under-regulated charter schools is the lack of transparency, accountability and stability. Public schools could never operate in this cavalier and specious manner. Today, Chavez management showed just how damaging that absence of accountability can be.
“Tonight, the educator leaders at Chavez and the AFT have launched an investigation into the administration’s actions and are considering legal action to examine exactly how this breach of good faith—and good governance—occurred.”
The AFT represents 7,500 members at 237 charter schools in 15 states and the District of Columbia. Since summer 2017, educators at 12 charter schools have joined the union.
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I always notice the “names” given to charter schools … to deceive the parents and students. This is MARKETING.
Propaganda techniques are being used everywhere. This country has a literacy and numeracy problem.
Homework assignment: How many times does one see ads that deceive within just one hour of one day. I’ve counted and I literally gave up counting there were so many.
Do things get any more shameful than this? And the gall to use Cesar Chavez as their namesake!
Classic irony or grand scale trolling. I suspect the latter.
When’s Randi going to denounce CAP ( disaster capitalism in Puerto Rico) and stand up beside AOC?
more usefully, when is Randi going to be pushed out of her leadership role: she absolutely represents the ‘establishment dems’ which AOC is trying hard to expose as being long-years complicit with corporate interests
What happens to the public funds given to a private charter when they abruptly close like this? Is it money down the drain or do the charters only get funding based on the days students attended the school?
In Ohio, it was money down the drain, estimated a little south of $1 bil. Getting the state’s Republicans to file charges is like pulling teeth. The charter operators funded the state GOP.
and not actually ‘down the drain’ to whose who managed to put it into private pockets
Louisville City Schools used to be ghettoized…They would bus a white child across town to maintain “apartheid”…Then came the riots…1973 or so…No doubt Jefferson County is full of Charters…to destroy any semblance of Brown V. Board of Ed…integration. Hope I am wrong…Haven’t been back to my old U of L alma mater in 46 years. Charters are just the second coming of the same old cavalry.
The PUBLIC University of Louisville, in return for funding, allowed the Koch’s version of academic independence on campus.
UnKochMyCampus.org posts investigative research including the recent , “Advancing White Supremacy through Academic Strategy” and, “Federalist Society Takeover of Public University….”