Teachers

Lack of Job Security

One common aspect of most of these charter schools is that teachers often have less job security. This comes with the fundamental idea of charter schools. There is no longer the presence of powerful teachers' unions and contractual obligations. In the charter school system, the only protections they're granted are the ones that the charter operator gives to them. If a teacher is viewed as undesirable or underperforming it is extremely easy for a charter operator to terminate them.  This of course isn't absolutely true for all charter schools.

Autonomy Corresponds with Power

Some charters lack the individual power which is often promoted by the aspect of being a charter. For example, in Milwaukee, there are three different varying levels of autonomy given to charter schools: Instrumental, Non-Instrumental, and Independent. "Independent" charter schools behave like the widely perceived understanding of what a charter school is. On the opposite side of this are "Instrumental" charters, which are much closer to traditional public schools rather than charters. Instrumental charters are heavily over sought by school districts and can't control the hiring of staff or their curriculums; this is still labeled as a charter school despite this.

More Responsibilities

The responsibilities of professors in charter schools are generally broader. Since these charters tend to hire fewer staff to get better margins, teachers are left with many of the responsibilities that would be occupied by professionals hired specifically for that job. For example, a teacher might also do the responsibilities of a librarian; or a bus driver might also do cafeteria work. All the staff in these charter schools are affected.

This video goes over an interesting unique charter school that focuses on giving good teachers extremely high wages.

Teacher's point of view of differences in charter and traditional public schools.