{"id":678,"date":"2011-12-21T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=678"},"modified":"2012-04-25T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T22:28:10","slug":"teacher-union-launches-charter-school-authorizer-in-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/teacher-union-launches-charter-school-authorizer-in-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Union Launches Charter School Authorizer in Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) has taken action to \u201chelp restore the professional autonomy of teachers,\u201d in exchange for agreeing to accountability measures.\u00a0 Earlier this month, MFT became the first teachers union in the country to open a charter school authorizer.\u00a0 \u201cConventional wisdom suggests that the interests of teachers unions and charter schools are at odds.\u00a0 I believe that\u2019s wrong,\u201d says Lynn Nordgren, President of MFT.\u00a0 The authorizing branch of the MFT is called the Minnesota Guild of Public Charter Schools (\u201cthe Guild\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Authorizing charter schools is viewed by MFT as an important way to play a role in school innovation, as well as to create schools in which teachers are valued and involved in major decision-making.\u00a0 The main functions of charter authorizers are to approve new schools, monitor their progress, and shut them down if they are not meeting academic or financial benchmarks.<\/p>\n<p>One question that has come up is whether or not the Guild will favor schools whose teachers wish to unionize.\u00a0 Under Minnesota law, that factor cannot be taken into consideration when determining authorization; however, it will be interesting to see which schools the Guild chooses to authorize and whether the staff at the school decide to organize.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educationevolving.org\/newsletters\/teachers-union-launches-charter-school-authorizer-in-minnesota\">http:\/\/www.educationevolving.org\/newsletters\/teachers-union-launches-charter-school-authorizer-in-minnesota<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minneapolis Federation of Teachers (MFT) has taken action to \u201chelp restore the professional autonomy of teachers,\u201d in exchange for agreeing to accountability measures.\u00a0 Earlier this month, MFT became the first teachers union in the country to open a charter school authorizer.\u00a0 \u201cConventional wisdom suggests that the interests of teachers unions and charter schools are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/teacher-union-launches-charter-school-authorizer-in-minnesota\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Teacher Union Launches Charter School Authorizer in Minnesota<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[56,55,54,97],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-reform-leadership","tag-charter-schools","tag-innovation","tag-policy","tag-teacher-unions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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