Labor board targets Detroit charter schools

The National Labor Relations Board has filed a complaint against two Detroit charter school management companies.

New Urban Learning, and its CEO Lesley Redwine, ran University Yes Academy on Detroit’s westside until summer 2015 when Redwine created a new management company, Inspired Education, known as InspireED, to take over. The labor board says Redwine created an “alter ego corporation” with InspireED to avoid bargaining with the University Yes staff members who overwhelmingly voted in favor of union representation last spring. Read more

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