How teachers union uses pet politicians to smear charter schools

Poor, minority and immigrant parents and students rallied in the thousands last week on behalf of charters schools — so the charter-hating United Federation of Teachers ordered some of its pet politicians to push state education officials into making the charter operators feel some pain.

After last Thursday’s 15,000-strong pro-charter march , Democratic state Sens. John Liu (Queens) and Sandy Mayer (Westchester) wrote the state overseers of charter schools demanding an investigation of the charter operators for alleged coercion, misuse of public funds and kids illegally missing school.

Of course, the senators never peeped when regular public schools encouraged students to skip to attend climate and anti-Trump protests in recent years; nor do they seem to care that most city charters