The teachers at Bricolage Academy have formed a union associated with the United Teachers of New Orleans. This makes Bricolage only the the third school to unionize over the course of the decade and a half since UTNO's contract was torn up by the state. After the flooding associated with Hurricane Katrina that destroyed the city, some 7,000 teachers who made up the heart of the city's Black middle class, were summarily fired by the district. During the decade plus since, the balkanized and semi-privatized charter system has proven an effective obstacle to reestablishing worker power in the schools. One might even say that is the entire point of the move in the first place. Which may be one reason the Bricolage administration is having trouble knowing just what to say about this development.
Board President Yvette Jones and Bricolage CEO Troave Profice did not respond to multiple requests for comment asking whether they supported the endeavor.
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