MV P Street and Teachers have a tentative contract

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't it cover the 8th St teachers as well? Are they working on a similar effort?

A majority of those employees need to vote to join the P St bargaining unit, or I guess they could create their own.

8th St teachers were still being hired as this all went down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't it cover the 8th St teachers as well? Are they working on a similar effort?

A majority of those employees need to vote to join the P St bargaining unit, or I guess they could create their own.

8th St teachers were still being hired as this all went down.

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I hope they vote to join and show other schools what is possible.
Who will be next? DCI, itds, Kipp, cmi, Lee, bridges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why doesn't it cover the 8th St teachers as well? Are they working on a similar effort?

A majority of those employees need to vote to join the P St bargaining unit, or I guess they could create their own.

8th St teachers were still being hired as this all went down.

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I hope they vote to join and show other schools what is possible.
Who will be next? DCI, itds, Kipp, cmi, Lee, bridges?

I doubt it would be ITDS. It's a smaller school and their teaching residents stay only one year so it's hard to organize them. CMI or Bridges or DCI could happen.

[Anonymous]

Two Rivers next?

[Anonymous]

I don’t think there will be a wave. MV was a unique situation— lots of upheaval (controversial expansion), staff turnover, persistent complaints about approach to behavioral issues or classroom instruction.

AND there was a teacher or two able or willing to organize their colleagues, quietly enough at first to surprise the admin with their vote. It wasn’t like the organizing campaign drug out for months or years as they often do.

We will see but this is really hard work that often comes at a cost.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think there will be a wave. MV was a unique situation— lots of upheaval (controversial expansion), staff turnover, persistent complaints about approach to behavioral issues or classroom instruction.

AND there was a teacher or two able or willing to organize their colleagues, quietly enough at first to surprise the admin with their vote. It wasn’t like the organizing campaign drug out for months or years as they often do.

We will see but this is really hard work that often comes at a cost.

Staff turnover and behavioral issue are far from unique to MV. It is common at many DCPS and charters.

Also, 1 or 2 staff quietly organizing is not true if the parent community was well aware of their efforts and supported it.

It is hard work and they were able to organize and succeed at something that no other charter in DC, probably nationwide did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think there will be a wave. MV was a unique situation— lots of upheaval (controversial expansion), staff turnover, persistent complaints about approach to behavioral issues or classroom instruction.

AND there was a teacher or two able or willing to organize their colleagues, quietly enough at first to surprise the admin with their vote. It wasn’t like the organizing campaign drug out for months or years as they often do.

We will see but this is really hard work that often comes at a cost.

Staff turnover and behavioral issue are far from unique to MV. It is common at many DCPS and charters.

Also, 1 or 2 staff quietly organizing is not true if the parent community was well aware of their efforts and supported it.

It is hard work and they were able to organize and succeed at something that no other charter in DC, probably nationwide did.

There are a number of charter schools and charter networks around the country that have been unionized for years- but it is still relatively rare. This was the second to be unionized in DC (after Chavez) and looks likely to be the first to have a ratified contract.

There is no such thing as a "national" charter model of anything. It varies drastically because of very different state/local laws.

https://www.crpe.org/thelens/six-things-we-learned-about-charter-schools-and-unionization