Tired of Teacher-Bashing, Union Educators Grow Their Own Schools

by E Wayne Ross on December 7, 2009

Labor Notes: Tired of Teacher-Bashing, Union Educators Grow Their Own Schools

Attacked daily as the biggest roadblock to improving public education, union teachers have their work cut out for them, both in the classroom and in the court of public opinion.

Three grades of the Boston Teachers Union School opened up two months ago. The young school, which will expand to K-8 by 2012, is part of the city’s controversial pilot school program dating from 1994.