Teachers Union Critical of Charter School Executive Pay

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HARTFORD, CT - Armed with a new report, the Connecticut Education Association said organizations managing many of the state’s charter schools are lining their own pockets instead of teaching children and it’s calling on legislators to hold them accountable.

“We’re giving millions to millionaires,” CEA Executive Director Mark Waxenberg said.

But those who work with and for charter schools in Connecticut said the teachers union was just “grasping at straws” and that the report was flawed.

“The research paper relied on by the CEA contains numerous inaccuracies and is a blatant political attack,” Peter Cymrot, vice president of legal and compliance for Achievement First, said.

Read more: http://www.ctnewsjunkie.com/archives/entry/teachers_union_critical_of_charter_school_executive_pay/

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1. K&R for visibility. nt

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2. I'm betting Achievement Firsts Peter Cymrot calls the report "flawed" because it tells the truth.

“It is unconscionable that Achievement First’s management fees have increased 139 percent or $3 million over a five year-period,” Waxenberg said. “Achievement First is getting rich off funds that should be used for our children, and taking valuable tax dollars away from schools that need them.”

The NAACP national board last October called for a moratorium on charter school expansion and for the strengthening of oversight.

The board said it wanted charter schools to be subject to the same transparency and accountability standards as public schools, that public funds not be given to charter schools at the expense of the public school system, that charter schools stop expelling students that public schools have a duty to educate, and that charter schools stop effecting “de facto segregation” of high-performing children from children whose “aspirations may be high but whose talents are not yet as obvious.”