Education Week: A federal appeals court has ruled that a Louisiana charter school operator is not a political subdivision of the state, lending support to a decision of the National Labor Relations Board that the operator committed an unfair labor practice by not recognizing and bargaining with a teacher's union.
The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, in New Orleans, is potentially significant nationally amid efforts to unionize teachers and other employees at charter schools, which are public schools but with widely varying governance structures.
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