Miami-Dade Teachers' Union Partners With Edison on Charter Plan
The teachers' union in Miami-Dade County, Fla., has joined with an unlikely partner—Edison Schools Inc.—in a proposal to build and manage 10 charter schools to help serve the district's bulging enrollment.
United Teachers of Dade, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, would receive the charter from the Miami-Dade district and would hire Edison to run seven elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school by 2003, under a proposal jointly announced by the two organizations this month.
New York City-based Edison, the nation's largest school-management company, has run one public elementary school in Miami-Dade County, the nation's fourth-largest district, since 1996. The company was greeted skeptically by the local union when it began managing Henry S. Reeves Elementary in Miami that year, and it faced several labor problems early...
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