Over at Ed is Watching, Eddie makes a great point about how teacher's unions really feel about charter schools. Probably the single greatest identifier of potential success in charter schools is the fact that they are not bound by the district's collective bargaining agreement and instead use at-will employees. A teacher who isn't effectively teaching students probably won't stay in a charter school for very long.
It should be noted that Colorado had a charter school created by representatives of the teacher's union and they, too, applied for and received a waiver from teacher licensure and the district's collective bargaining agreement.
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