Success charter school vows to start class on Monday despite UFT lawsuit

[Kamaji]

Success charter school vows to start class on Monday despite UFT lawsuit

By Adam Brodsky, Priscilla DeGregory and Jesse O’Neill   
August 10, 2023

Class will be in session Monday at the Success Academy — starting with a lesson in defiance.

The leader of the renown charter school group vowed to start class on Aug. 14 in a Queens public school building that the powerful teachers’ union is trying to kick her out of.

Word that students would be in their seats in just days came a day after the United Federation of Teachers filed an emergency injunction in Manhattan State Supreme Court Wednesday, urging a judge to stop the move.

Eva Moskowitz said that with the court dragging its feet, the academy’s Rockaway Park Middle School was going to be rolling full steam ahead with plans to open in the PS 225 building in Queens, which houses the Department of Education’s Waterside Leadership School.

Union officials had filed a lawsuit to prevent the publicly funded, privately run charter school from co-locating in that public school building and at the K495 high school complex in Brooklyn, citing New York’s new class-size law.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/10/success-charter-school-vows-to-start-class-on-monday-despite-uft-lawsuit/

[DefiantMassRINO]

Government money ... Government building ... what's the problem?  Oh, that's right - Government money, Government building, and non-union teachers.

Did the teachers' public bargaining contract contain a clause barring Government funded Charter Schools from Government Property?

From the Union's perspective, this is the beginning of the privatization of public education.  Better for parents and students; worse for unions.

[PeteS in CA]

Hypothetically, union-shop schools could put charters out of business and make a dent in private schools' enrollment very easily. Just. Be. Better. But that would take work, and incompetents and lazies pay dues, and students' parents do not.

[Kamaji]

Hypothetically, union-shop schools could put charters out of business and make a dent in private schools' enrollment very easily. Just. Be. Better. But that would take work, and incompetents and lazies pay dues, and students' parents do not.

Indeed.