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[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 can make changes to their payscale and salaries if they want to. They get to manage their own budgets. If they wanted to cut back on something else, they could afford more in salaries. Some schools have costly buildings. Some have more aides, some have less. Some have smaller class size, some larger. Then there's salaries for their leadership, and how much they pay to consultants and charter management organizations.

At our school (ITDS), there are way more aides than DCPS provides for its schools. In DCPS, for example, there would not typically be a full-time aide in an upper elementary classroom unless it were PTO-funded or required by a student's IEP. DCPS aims for class sizes of 22-24ish for elementary, but will go higher on a case by case basis-- I've personally seen elementary classes as high as 29 kids. ITDS caps class size at 24, occasionally 25. If ITDS school went up to 25 in all classrooms, it would have $100K in formula funding. It's the school's choice to make. But it seems perfectly right and fair for a school with more students to get more funding.[/quote]

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