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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah I don’t think so. Tell your charter board to increase teacher salaries if you don’t like current pay structures. Charter teachers should unionize if they want the collective bargaining power that the WTU has. Why on earth should they benefit from the DCPS union’s efforts if they choose not to unionize (MV aside)?

Some context for anyone who’s trying to figure out what this is about: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1109459.page

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This is silly. Salaries can't be increased independent of funding. The salaries of the unionized charter school are lower than the other charters. It isn't that the union isn't effective, they just can't raise salaries to compete with other charters (or DCPS) without getting equivalent funding. [/quote]

Charters choose to pay their teachers lower salaries in many cases.  They want to be independent and therefore they choose how to allocate their budgets.  They choose their staffing numbers, salaries, etc.  Advocate with your charter leaders to increase teacher pay in their budgeting.[/quote]

Clearly math isn’t your forte. There is a per pupil funding amount that public schools receive. They budget within that. They can move money around but with educator salaries gerald being a larger percentage of school budgets increases are capped by the per pupil amount. Unfortunately, just cutting doesn’t yield enough for decent salary increases when there are fixed costs like mortgages and essential like utilities, food, etc have risen rapidly. [/quote]

Charters have rich donors, some are part of vast organizations and some are for profit.  You don’t think they could get more funding? No they’d rather have more tax payer dollars to do whatever they want at the school.  [/quote]

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