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Breakaway LA Teachers Want To Go Charter

By Alexander Russo — June 01, 2007 1 min read
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In most cases, charter schools are new starts promoted by a charter group, or occasionally conversions (as in Chicago and San Diego). But rarely that I know of have teachers decided that they wanted to go charter, and signed petitions to do so. That’s what’s going on at Locke high school in LA, where teachers are trying to break away from LAUSD and form a cluster of charter schools operated by Green Dot, whose teachers have abbreviated collective bargaining rights. And regardless of what happens there it creates a fascinating new grassroots way for teachers to get in the charter game, if they want to. Two other LA schools have already expressed interest, and I’ve gotten emails from teachers in Chicago wondering if they can do the same.

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