Today’s New York Times has an interesting profile of Steve Barr and the Green Dot charter schools, “Union-Friendly Maverick Leads New Charge for Charter Schools.”
It is beginning to become clear just how apoplectic the right wing forces in education have become over Barr’s Green Dot schools and his support of teacher unionism. In a clear break with a long-established practice of charter schools not criticizing other charter schools, first Checker Finn’s Gadfly and now Clint Bolick, Ken Starr’s old aide-de-camp, have started lobbing grenades in Barr’s direction. “If union bosses start patrolling their hallways,” Bolick opines in the Times piece with reference to the Green Dot schools, “that’ll be the death knell of charters, as it has been for public schools.” So much for Clint’s frequent proclamations of his dedication to high quality schools serving poor kids. Now the real bottom line is on the table — anti-union public schools, even at the cost of attacking pro-union charter schools doing the very things he claims to support.
3 Comments:
1 Democrats for Education Reform
· Jul 24, 2007 at 12:17 pm
[...] and meet Alexander, who has already RSVP'd for the drink fest.)UPDATE II: At EdWize, Leo Casey seems to think that the right-wing is apoplectic about the waves Barr is causing. Could be, but the charter movement has always been more diverse in [...]
2 Eduwonk.com: More Teachers' Unions And Charters
· Jul 25, 2007 at 9:16 pm
[...] would cut off his $200,000 yearly subsidy.) Emph. Added.While you’re at Edwize and related, Leo Casey points out that some conservatives and libertarians don’t like teachers’ unions. Duh. But, I think Joe Williams [...]
3 Sherman Dorn: Stiff spats over charter schools
· Jul 27, 2007 at 1:24 pm
[...] to Andy Rotherham’s comment, and then Sara Mead’s response, plus Joe Williams’ dismissal of Casey’s interpretation of a blurb in the Fordham Gadfly that complains about teachers unions wanting to organize [...]
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