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To All Teachers in Seattle: Collective Bargaining Rights Are Civil Rights | Seattle Education

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To All Teachers in Seattle: Collective Bargaining Rights Are Civil Rights

The term “Innovation School” is a charter school in sheep’s clothing. Sue and I both posted information regarding this bill last year. It basically allows teachers to sign their rights away in exchange for allowing more freedom to teach outside the tight parameters of the curriculum alignment standards.

Our question is, why do teachers have to sign their rights away to teach in a way that they think is in the best interest of their students?

Alternative schools are able to do that now although with the stricter standards as outlined by our former Broad-trained superintendent, many of these successful schools have had to request “waivers” to teach their students