“What has happened is that this management has turned the charter system on its end and has made it ideologically against the teachers, against the parents, and against the community.” “Charters were supposed to be incubators, supposed to be places where teachers and parents could help the community do new things,” she said. Randy Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, helped lead that fight and spoke during a rally in front of the Accelerated School on Tuesday. In December, charter school teachers in Chicago won their fight against one of the city’s largest charter networks. This charter school strike is a first for California, but it’s the second in the country. He went on to explain that it was his second year teaching at the school and, despite his short tenure, that he was considered one of the veterans at this point. But, with continued turnover, environment is just the same environment that they’re coming from: People that aren’t there for them.” “They’re supposed to be able to come to school and have a respite from that.
“I have students who come to me weekly and tell me stories of traumatic experiences they’ve had at home,” he said. He explained that the schools, all located in South Central Los Angeles and primarily serving lower-income students, ought to play a critical role in students’ lives. “How are they supposed to get a letter of recommendation? How are they supposed to create lasting relationships with adults?” “There have been seniors who said that there are only four teachers remaining from their freshman year,” Collie-Hartmann said.
We need to invest in our existing schools.”Ĭollie-Hartmann echoed the sentiments and explained that inadequate healthcare and flimsy teacher protections has led to high turnover at the Accelerated Schools - nearly 50 percent every year. We don’t need to have the grow-as-fast-as-you-can business model that’s promoted by charter school billionaires. “There are charter schools that are shutting down because of a lack of enrollment. “We are against the unregulated growth of charters, and we are against charters being able to have lower standards that actually hurts students,” he said. The Accelerated Schools are a collection of three schools, including Wallis Annenberg High School, the Accelerated Charter Elementary School, and the eponymous Accelerated School, which is for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.Īlthough charter schools face some animosity from public school teachers, UTLA President Alex Caputo-Pearl explained that the union wasn’t against charter schools. Negotiations between teachers and The Accelerated Schools began 20 months ago and the top priority was slowing the pace of teacher turnover, according to a statement from the UTLA. “She had to choose whether to support the students here or support her family.” “We had a teacher last year who left because she got pregnant,” Collie-Hartmann said. The teachers - who are represented by United Teachers Los Angeles - are also asking for adequate healthcare after administrators for The Accelerated Schools moved to freeze their health benefits at current rates, even if the cost of living increased. Unified, alongside 90 percent of the teachers in the state, are entitled to these benefits.
Because of this, they can be fired for without cause or recourse. Collie-Hartmann explained that teachers don’t have due process or binding arbitration.
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