Teachers union announces suit against San Antonio ISD over charter school partnership
The San Antonio Alliance of Teachers and Support Personnel is suing the San Antonio Independent School District to try to block a contract that transferred an elementary school’s operations to a New York-based charter school network, the Texas State Teachers Association announced Friday.
The association said the suit was being filed Friday afternoon in state district court in Bexar County. It had not been received by 5 p.m., said Donna Kay McKinney, Bexar County district clerk.
The San Antonio Alliance is a joint local affiliate of the TSTA and the Texas American Federation of Teachers. The union has vehemently fought the SAISD partnership with Democracy Prep since January, when it was first publicly announced as a way to save Stewart Elementary School from closing.
Under the charter network, Stewart teachers become “at-will” employees. Teachers said Stewart employees would lose protections and benefits. They also objected to Democracy Prep’s discipline policies and the English as a second language program that is slated to replace Stewart’s bilingual program next year.
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