Public assessments of local schools would shift in a more skeptical direction; support for universal voucher initiatives, charter schools, and the parent trigger would increase; limits to teacher tenure would gain greater public support; and both teachers unions and demands for increases in teacher salaries would confront
greater public skepticism.
Contrary to what one might expect given the opposition — or at least hearty
skepticism — of teachers unions to the charter school movement, districts with a
greater union presence were more likely to have a charter school and to have a
greater share of
public school students enrolled in charter schools in 2003 — 04.