Group Organizes To Preserve Quality Education Standards
EDISON…Working at a charter school in Englewood, fourth-grade teacher Janine Ellis wants to protect the engaged classroom environment and close-knit community the teachers have cultivated since the kindergarten through grade five school opened in 1998. Many of the original teachers are still on board at the school, where students receive special attention based on small class size. Ellis and her colleagues voted to form a union with the American Federation of Teachers, a decision ratified by the state Public Employees Relations Commission.