Charter School vs. Government Schools ... Guess Which Produces the Smarter Students

According to the Baltimore Sun: "After seven years of ignoring the issue, the Baltimore Teachers Union told the charter school earlier this year that it must pay its teachers 33 percent more than other city school teachers because they were working nine hours and 15 minutes a day, as well as every other Saturday. The standard workday for teachers is seven hours and five minutes."

"In 2008, 96 percent of the eighth-graders at KIPP passed the Maryland School Assessment in math and 56 percent passed in reading. Overall, the students scored among the top 10 percent of all middle schools in the state."

So the kids are smarter because the teachers spend more time helping the students and teaching ... rather than the gov't schools where the teachers just bitch! Now, because the charter school kids are doing better than the gov't school kids we have to FORCE the charter school teachers to not work so hard for their current level of pay. This is just incredible! Another example of the destruction at a union hand...