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Standing up Against Charter Schools and Continue to Fight for the Ideals He and Continue to Fight for the Ideals He Espoused, It Appears That Some Are Interpreting Dr Boston, MA 02111 402 Suite 38 Chauncy Street AFT Massachusetts Find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ aftma March 2015 Standing Up Against Charter Schools AFT MA and MTA unite in Pioneer-hosted panel s we mark the anniversary was called charter schools and teach- goal of the Civil Rights movement and of Dr. Martin Luther King’s ers unions, not charter schools versus a key to achieving a true democracy,” Ahistoric march on Washington teachers unions, Dr. Carson asked While Dr. Arsenault posed educa- and continue to fight for the ideals he himself what Dr. King would say about tion reform as “a pathway to freedom,” espoused, it appears that some are the current state of education. he questioned how charter schools interpreting Dr. King’s vision in differ- “He would have something to say on and teachers unions fit into all this. ent, potentially conflicting ways. both sides,” Carson suggested. “I do not recall any of them talk- On February 26, the Pioneer In- Noting that Dr. King was “a lifelong ing about charter schools or teachers stitute hosted a panel discussion at advocate of unions” who “gave his life unions specifically,” he said of the the Omni Parker House in Boston, for the right to organize” and remind- Civil Rights activists he interviewed the title of which was “Civil Rights, ing the audience that Dr. King was in for his book, “but the issues are very Charter Schools & Teacher Unions.” Memphis on April 4, 1968 as part of a close to what they did back in 1961.” Among the sponsors of the program sanitation workers’ strike, Dr. Carson As it may admittedly be difficult were the Black Alliance for to see how charter Educational Options, the schools, vouchers, SABIS education network, testing, privatization, the Massachusetts Charter and the importance Public School Association, of teachers unions fit the National Alliance for into the civil rights In This Issue Public Charter Schools, and discussion, Dr. Ar- Announcements the Program on Education senault reposed the 2 and News Items Policy & Governance at question thusly: Legislators are Listening Harvard’s Kennedy School “Has the creation 3 of Government. Among the of charter schools Chapter 70 Hearings Help speakers and panelists were done more good than Strike a Delicate Balance SABIS school Director Dr. harm,” he asked, not- Proposed GIC Changes Sephira Shuttlesworth, Stan- ing that the answer, 4 ford Professor Dr. Clayborne STANDING UP FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION “may depend on AFT MA President Tom Gosnell addresses the audience at a Looking Forward to the 2015 Carson, University of South which part of Ameri- recent discussion about civil rights and education Paraprofessional Conference Florida, St. Petersburg, His- can we are talking tory Department Chair Dr. Raymond also noted that the first black high about.” On Campus: 6 Advocating for Adjuncts Arsenault, Boston Alliance of Charter school in Atlanta was created with As Massachusetts has “some of most Schools Senior Advisor Kevin An- help from Dr. King’s grandfather, who successful charter schools in country” New Teacher Evaluation drews, Black Alliance for Educational was the founding head of the NAACP (while his new home state of Florida System Takes Shape Options Action Fund Chairman Ge- in GA. He also mentioned that Dr. has “some of the worst”), Dr. Arse- rard Robinson, Massachusetts Teach- King himself attended an “experimen- nault suggested that some charter 7 Retiree Corner: “Join or Die” ers Association President Barbara tal school” at Atlanta University. schools may, in fact, be worse than Policy Perspective: Madeloni, and AFT MA President Tom “Dr. King was concerned with how other public schools, and vice versa. Madison Park Gosnell. to provide the engine of opportunity Limiting the discussion to Massa- After a welcome from Pioneer that is at root of American identity,” chusetts, Dr. Arsenault asked the pan- Legislator Profile: Institute Distinguished Senior Fel- he suggested, before posing the poi- elists why teachers unions’ resistance 8 Pat Jehlen low and former Massachusetts Senate gnant question, “What has happened to charters schools in Massachusetts President Thomas Birmingham, Dr. to this engine?” has not lessened considering how well Benefit Bulletin” Cellular Phone Savings Shuttlesworth (who is the widow of While some posit that charter the schools do. noted Civil Rights leader Fred Shut- schools may be the new engine, Dr. As he had been taught to do in families and communities, regardless tlesworth) spoke of the efforts she and Carter countered by asking, “Are we high school, Gosnell rose to his feet of what school options there may be. her late husband had engaged in on trying to make education better for to reply, reminding the audience and “We don’t address that,” Gosnell behalf of the underserved and of her all children or for our children?” and his fellow panelists that, “Massachu- observed. “We try to by creating other own experiences with segregation. also suggested that, setts regular public options, but they don’t go to the heart “My introduction to school choice in trying to make Massachusetts regular public schools are number of it. We must address the poverty in came when my siblings integrated our schools that we see schools are number one in the one in the nation which these boys and girls live. They school in Jackson, TN,” she explained, as better than public nation on the NAEP tests and on the NAEP tests deserve better than we are giving noting that her family had been told schools, we may be number one in the Western World and number one in them.” that school choice was “a right for “leaving behind” on the international math and sci- the Western World Madeloni then picked up Dr. every family.” other schools. ence tests. on the internation- Carson’s idea of those who get “left Shuttlesworth then discussed the “We need to think -AFT MA President al math and science behind” and suggested (as Gosnell profound changes that school choice about those left Tom Gosnell tests,” noting that, had) that this was the “critical frame” has undergone, suggesting that the behind,” he said, in this state (and for this conversation. path ends with charter schools. paraphrasing Dr. King’s premise that in most of the top-performing states), Noting that charter schools typically “I want schools that children run to “we should resolve to never become “all public schools teachers work have lower numbers of ELL and SPED and walk away from,” she said, sug- so secure in our thinking or our living under a collective bargaining agree- students than public schools, Mad- gesting that SABIS has created such that we will forget the least of these” ment.” eloni suggested that, in adding charter schools and helped so-called “failing and suggesting that “we will never While he admitted that, as a “long- schools to the equation, we have cre- schools” out of “academic emergency.” be what we ought to be until they are time public educator in Massachu- ated “a two-tier system” that not only “We are determined to provide the what they ought to be.” setts,” he could only talk about this does not serve all students but actively same education in struggling commu- Introducing the panel, Cape Cod state, Gosnell observed that, “there are pushes some out. nities as we do in the best schools in native Dr. Arsenault (author of the some charters in Massachusetts that “What does that mean for people the country and the world,” Shuttles- book Freedom Riders, on which the do quite well, but also others that do who are committed to civil rights?” worth said. Emmy Award-winning public televi- not do well,” and suggested that the she asked. Opening by saying he was “relieved” sion program was based) suggested real issue is the poverty that “cheats” Again echoing Gosnell, Madeloni to see that the morning’s program that, “educational opportunity is a real so many of our students and their Continued on page 5 FOOD and ADVICE and Come to the BOLDPRINT SUPPORT FUN!!! The Department of Elementary 29th Annual & Secondary Education (DESE) is extending its Customer Ser- vice ‘Hotline’ hours to include 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. in addition to 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m., Monday AFT/BTU through Friday. Paraprofessional The direct line is 781-381-6600. Statewide Conference Legendary Jazz promoter Fred Taylor was recently honored with Berklee College of Music’s inaugural George Wein Impresario Award. 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