School Vouchers

[Kevin]

Originally posted by hoosier
Nice report. Hopefully next year OKC will do five more similar schools, and five more the following year.

Is you fiancée a teachers' union member? How powerful is the union there?

She's a union member -- it's actually done some good things for her. In her present school, the union has absolutely zero sway though. There's no district administration to answer to. The school has its own school board which 'technically' answers to the OKC school board (although, the OKC school board probably could care less because they're too busy spending bond money with their buddies' construction firms).

The union provides some pretty desirable benefits like legal protection. For example, if a kid sues her for some bogus claim, it's not going to cost us a penny. The benefits don't stop there, but as to influence, at last in charter schools, it's virtually nil.