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May 25, 2007
Chuck Porcari
202/879-4458
cporcari@aft.org
Statement by American Federation of Teachers Legislative Director Tor Cowan(Correcting a May 22 Congress Daily article that mischaracterizes AFT’s
position on charter schools)
Proposals in Congress that would allow existing state limitations on charter schools to be exceeded represent an inappropriate expansion of federal power. It is simply inaccurate to interpret our conversations with the National Alliance of Public Charter Schools on measuring student growth and innovative educational practices to mean that we support an agenda to pre-empt state laws governing charter schools.
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The AFT represents 1.4 million pre-K through 12th-grade teachers, paraprofessionals and other school support employees, higher education faculty, nurses and other healthcare workers, and state and local government employees.
