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Cyber Charter School Vote to Unionize, Teachers in Pa.

Teachers at Pa. Cyber Charter Vote to Unionize

By Danielle Wilson on April 18, 2014 12:16 PM

By guest blogger Danielle Wilson

Cyber charter teachers from a school in Pennsylvania have voted to become the only unionized group of virtual instructors in the state. Teachers from the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, also known as PA Cyber, will join the Pennsylvania State Education Association to bargain for higher teacher wages, according to the Associated Press

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In an interview, Pennsylvania State Education Association spokesman Wythe Keever told Education Week that the teachers of PA Cyber were concerned about their compensation in comparison to bricks-and-mortar schools, and also worried about due process rights—the procedures a school must follow to dismiss...

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