EMU union against online degrees

[eriehiker]

Maybe Eastern shouldn't have chartered a whole bunch of cheap, low-paying charter schools in Michigan that drove enrollment in teacher-preparation programs in Michigan to half the previous enrollment levels and cut profits in half for a teacher-education school like Eastern.  Yeah.  Maybe that wasn't such a good strategic plan.

CA has cheap low-paying charter schools (less than regular public schools) and teachers FLOCK to them.  Many are non-common-core (my kids schools don't do common core THANK GOD), and teachers prefer the flexibility in curriculum and ability to teach in ways they enjoy rather than some of the requirements that common core puts on other teachers.  AND, as an added benefit, the charter schools here get MUCH better test scores than public schools.  Our school is a great example - kids in our charter area are very low-income, but their math scores are 24 points higher and English is 18 points than the closest elementary school which we draw from.

There are waiting lists for all of our schools.

This wasn't a general charter school rant.  This was an Eastern Michigan University charter school rant.  If charter schools are created with the goal of actually improving student performance, pay and working conditions for teachers will follow because a well-treated teacher is likely to be a motivated teacher.  The EMU charters were mostly just created as a cheap-to-administer cash cow for EMU.