Massachusetts Teachers Association Disses Teacher of the Year

Sydney Chaffee, who lives in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston and teaches ninth grade at a charter school in Dorchester, was recently named 2017 Teacher of the Year. But delegates to the convention of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the major teachers union in the state, voted not to congratulate her earlier this month, because Chaffee, like many charter school teachers, is not a member of the union.