AFL-CIO, NAACP warming to idea of charter schools. (American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

Crain's Cleveland Business | December 9, 1996| | Copyright

The local branches of the AFL-CIO and the NAACP, past opponents of charter schools, now are considering backing a Republican legislator's plan to turn the Cleveland Public Schools into an all-charter district.

Both organizations last Thursday, Dec. 5, hosted a symposium on charter schools featuring two panelists invited by Rep. Michael Fox, R-Hamilton. Rep. Fox termed their willingness to support a charter schools symposium "a major breakthrough," even though two Washington-based education groups actually covered the costs of flying in the panelists.

Neither the ...

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