Not exact matches
Participating
school districts, charter
schools, professional organizations,
private schools distribute local applications and
organize local
Teacher of the Year (TOY) recognition activities.
CMSA is perhaps best known for having fired a pregnant
teacher in 2010 who was involved in
organizing a union at the
school, then defending itself against a labor relations board action by claiming it was a
private, not a public
school.
He is also an authority on
teachers» unions,
private school vouchers, charter
schools, turnaround
school efforts, labor
organizing and inequality in higher education.
And the free, participatory unconferences of Ed Camps —
organized by
teachers for
teachers — have focuses as varied as how to teach quantum physics with dance or how to engage in public /
private school partnerships (Swanson, 2014).
Look: if we had clear, repeatable, and compelling empirical data about the virtues of charter
schools, or
private school vouchers, or the negative effects of public
school unions on student performance, then we'd have hard choices to make as a society — particularly considering that the right of
teachers to
organize is precisely that, a right that can't be taken away whenever it is convenient.