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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Welcome to the entitled generation.  It doesn't matter than it was "my" choice where to teach.  Instead, the place "I" chose should give "me" the benefits of the place "I" didn't choose because "I'm" an awesome teacher and deserve it.

A prior poster provided the hard facts about how and how much charter schools get funded vs. DCPS.  Damned the facts, let's unionize the teaching staff at charter schools, demand salaries and benefits beyond what their funding can support, drive them into the red, and cause them to be shuttered for financial failure.

Are there 1 or 2 or maybe 3 charter schools that are paying the top brass too much?  Yes, and they should be corrected immediately.
Are the rest making the best use possible with inadequate funding?  Probably.

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To the contrary. Educators often form unions to band together to create a better environment for teaching and learning. It is a form of taking MORE responsibility for the students not less. [/quote]
You couldn't be more wrong.  Teachers want a union to get better pay, smaller class sizes, more time off, more training, better benefits, and more.  Until teachers accept the unchangeable reality that per-pupil funding won't magically increase to cover those additional costs, they are tilting at windmills.  Where should the dollars come from, absent increased funding -- rent, custodial services, security, technology, supplies, field trips, air conditioning, resource service providers, dedicated aides to meet IEP requirements?

Don't make the transparency argument either.  Any teacher can look at the detailed financials of their school, publicly available, to see the details of revenue and expenses.  Oh, that takes a bit of work.  Let's form a union instead, pay union dues, let the union do the homework, and assume the union can improve our employment arrangements.[/quote]

Actually, one of their stated concerns is that students with special needs ARE falling through the cracks. 
Another is that the administration waited until after contracts were signed for a new school year to make significant and costly (to the staff) changes to their health insurance plan. Perhaps the insurance plan DID need to change, but there is no reason that staff shouldn't have been told that before committing to another year. 
The Administration also had a policy of distributing bonuses to teachers, with no clear criteria for how it was determined who got them and who didn't. And then, this year they announced there would be no bonuses.
And finally, the Administration made a decision to replicate without the support of its teachers or current parents, all for a new building grant that was supposedly time-limited?

That kind of bait and switch and lack of transparency is corrosive in any organization in 2019. If MV were acting in good faith, perhaps the staff wouldn't have formed the union. But they have, and now the Administration has to deal with it.

As to the budget, there is no reason to assume that there is no fat in the MV's budget.

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