UFT Charter Fools
Posted on October 3rd, 2010 by Admin
Union drags down schools’ grades
Not all charter schools are created equal.
City charter schools represented by the teachers union scored significantly lower on city-issued report cards this year than did their nonunionized counterparts, a new analysis found.
The seven charter elementary and middle schools whose members belong to the United Federation of Teachers scored a collective
C-minus on this year’s report cards, which are based largely on whether students improve on state reading and math tests.
By comparison, the remaining 50 nonunion charter schools averaged a more respectable B-minus grade, according to the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability in Albany.