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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]

WITH WHAT MONEY? How does a school pay their teachers more when the increase in UPSFF doesn't cover the inflationary increase to our fixed costs? Where do we get the funds? Many schools are enrolled to capacity- we can't just "add kids" because we have an enrollment cap. We can't reduce fixed costs on our facilities because we have to meet debt covenant ratios based on loans and it isn't like food/material costs are going down.

What magical budgeting skills do you think we have? Cutting "bloated" salaries...okay, lets just assume that I can do that...how much do you think that will save? A hundred grand? Cool- so all my teachers get a $2,500 raise? Compare that to the increases in DCPS...do you think we can keep teachers in our classrooms? If not, who does that hurt the most? The 48% of at-risk students that charters serve throughout the city.

Wake up- this isn't to fill to coffers of charter schools...[/quote]

You can apply for an increase in enrollment cap and that will allow you to increase class sizes.
You can try harder to fill up empty seats before Count Day.
You can stop spending money on consultants, admin salaries, and charter management organizations.
You can lower your quality to DCPS levels-- honestly, that's a big part of the difference.
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