Edwise exposes local charter backers

Edwise does a good job of exposing the anti-union agenda of charter advocates in New York Charter School Association, Completely Bought and Paid For:

He who pays the piper calls the tunes, and the anti-union troika of Walton-Gilder-Icahn has NYCSA and its allied organizations doing their bidding. NYCSA is completely bought and paid for. The anti-union, right wing economic agenda comes first, and charter schools and the students their serve come in a poor second.

We've done our share of reporting on the confluence of anti public school crusaders and the charter movement. Nice to see the NYC teachers union exposing this relationship too. It helps the union's credibility that they are operating their own charter school and have offered to work with charter backers to ease restrictions on new charters. The UTF is clearly not a reactionary force here. They are merely insisting on fair labor practices—which is enough to provoke opposition from the monied charter backers and expose their true motives.