Another charter goes union.

It’s another setback for those who want to use charter schools as a weapon in their union busting schemes.

EdWize reports that the United Teachers of Los Angeles has been certified as the bargaining representative of teachers at the Accelerated Charter School in downtown LA.

Teachers at Accelerated Charter are preparing to bargain their first contract for the four schools serving 1,200 students from pre-K to 12th grade. The teachers are committed to negotiating a contract that will help them maintain the kind of influence that got Accelerated named Time magazine’s Elementary School of the Year in 2001 for using “the most promising approaches to the most pressing challenges in education.’

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