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The New York State AFL-CIO is targeting two of the Legislature’s staunchest charter school supporters claiming they’re anti-union.
The 2.5 million member union umbrella group blitzed the two senator’s districts today with flyers accusing them of ``siding with big corporations and against teachers and students’’ by voting for a bill last week to expand charter schools ``with no real reform.’’
Both Klein and Johnson have repeatedly said they support charters – publicly funded and privately managed schools that typically have a longer school day and year than traditional public schools -- because they’re pro-kid, and pro-parent.
The Senate passed a measure last week to lift the charter school cap to 460 statewide from 200 over objections of the teachers’ unions and the AFL-CIO. The state Assembly, where the unions have considerable influence, has yet to take up the measure.
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