AFL-CIO goes after charter school supporters

The New York Post reports:

It’s political war over charter schools!

The New York State AFL-CIO is targeting two of the Legislature’s staunchest charter school supporters – Sens. Jeff Klein of the Bronx and Craig Johnson of Nassau – claiming they’re anti-union.

The 2.5 million member union umbrella group blitzed the two senator’s districts today with flyers accusing them of ``siding with big corporations and against teachers and students’’ by voting for a bill last week to expand charter schools ``with no real reform.’’

Both Klein and Johnson have repeatedly said they support charters – publicly funded and privately managed schools that typically have a longer school day and year than traditional public schools -- because they’re pro-kid, and pro-parent.