UFT Head Tells Charter Leaders: Teachers’ Unions Are Not Your Foe
The head of the New York City teachers’ union told a gathering of charter school leaders meeting here last week that, despite perceptions to the contrary, unions are not the enemy of charter schools.
“The [American Federation of Teachers] does not have a position that all charter schools are bad,” said Randi Weingarten, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, an affiliate of the national union.
“If there’s one thing that I can get through to the people here, … [it’s that] we are in this together in terms of educating all kids,” she told some 400 participants at the Oct. 24-25 conference, hosted by the Alexandria, Va.-based National Association of Charter School Authorizers. “Public school choice was never an issue...
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