If you ask New Jersey educator Jaime Valente if charter schools should be held to the same standards as traditional public schools, he will answer, “Yes and no.”
“Yes, I believe that charter schools need to provide the same education that a student would receive as if he or she were in the traditional public school system,” said Valente, a music teacher at a charter school in Teaneck, New Jersey. “But I also believe that charter schools should meet those standards and regulations…and exceed them. They should give the student something they can’t get in a regular public school.”
Valente believes educators at his school, the Teaneck Community Charter School (TCCS), will now have more of an opportunity to do just that—thanks to an overwhelming vote earlier this year by school personnel to form a union.
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Via Chuck Sherwood, Former Senior Associate, TeleDimensions, Inc