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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]School newspaper just dropped a special edition expose. Amazing. [/quote]

Is that online? Link?[/quote]

https://www.instagram.com/dci_newspaper/

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tFezsBJ2KJM2uDW37Gq0kZQyf7Fcqi5fVEjUbl5m_jU/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4z2kyyema2et

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With all the drama, I was expecting worse.  Basically they don’t like being accountable to show up a on time and DCI released an at will employee without telling all the staff and students the reason.

Sounds like the biggest issue is with the union. [i]“Salaries have also been a central facet of the complaints made by teachers and staff. Last year, DCI teachers unionized in the hope of getting higher pay, but some of them say they have not seen the changes that they were promised.”   [/i]

Who promised them higher pay?  Sounds like they should be hammering the Mayor and Council for funding parity like the law requires so they could get paid more.[/quote]

I support the unionization drive but I thought it was messy and poorly led. I am not very surprised that the teachers are learning the hard way that collective bargaining involves bargaining. [b]Best case scenario with a union at a charter school is you have fewer permanent staff making more money,[/b] and worst case is you still get people fired and churn increases because admin starts doing things like auditing card punches and firing troublemakers who might have a problem with the concept of linear time. [/quote]

This part is very sad. There’s a limited amount of funding going to each charter and raising salaries most often means cutting elsewhere. It’s too bad when those cuts have to come from reducing staff instead of other kinds of expenses. But like the previous poster  said earlier that’s why the teachers and their union reps should be livid that charters are being shorted in the budget. And it’s only going to get worse if the current budget proposal passes - less than half of the teacher pay amount previously provided to charters is reflected in the upcoming year’s budget.

On top of that, this seems like a contract that was badly negotiated from the teacher/staff’s side and they are trying to make the admin the fall guy for contract issues. [/quote]

You’re assuming the dispute is only about money.

The concern many people have is that when this many stakeholders lose confidence in leadership, the Board’s response seems to be explaining away the concerns rather than asking why they’re occurring in the first place.[/quote]

The board and most parents appear to realize that the faction that has lost confidence is a small group of people who seem unable to realize that the board and administration cannot comment on personnel matters.

Once they realized that there was no explanation that they could put out there that would both satisfy this loud but small group AND keep litigation risk low, they moved on.

That this group seems to be entirely composed of a set of parents who seem bound to Montessori nonsense, caused drama at their previous school,  AND are unable to craft a coherent argument even using every LLM available is coincidental, I’m sure. [/quote]

In what world is 94% a small group of people? You should try using an LLM to help you with reading comprehension. 
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