Charter Model Of Education Essay

You write, “CTU president Karen Lewis told reporters that ‘charter schools are here, and they're not going anywhere. So the key is, how do you make them a bitter pill to their management companies? It’s the management companies we have the issues with, not the charter teachers, not the students, not the parents.” It has been evident that the CTU has a problem with the charter model of public school management, and this merger seems to be in response to the fact that even charter educators have got lots of issues with the charter model of school governance. So why are we, as educators, continuing to negotiate with a bureaucracy consistently pushing itself between us and the resources we need in our classrooms to serve our students? Why are

In fear of being held accountable, and losing their security, educators have been aligning their fight with their political loyalties to US imperialism, creating compromises with model systems that impede the process of educational change that students need. We need to make teaching and learning more than a score. We need to advocate for teachers, not just for their rights but so that we can teach what matters: critical thinking, civic courage, curiosity, creativity, collaboration. In the book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1970), Freire conceptualizes the structure of an oppressed society and brings education into the forefront of his argument by saying that to free oneself from this oppressive system, we must be able to recognize the nature of the oppressive cycle and increase our consciousness of it in a way that is not passive. We need to stop being passive. Resources and increased funding may improve conditions for teachers and students, but it fails to develop the system our schools exist within that continue to reproduce oppressive standards and environments for