Charter schools win wage battle in state's top court

ALBANY – Proponents of charter schools scored a victory in the state's highest court this morning, which ruled that the alternative public schools don't have to pay "prevailing wage" on building projects.

The Court of Appeals voted 5-2 to uphold a lower courts decision and toss a controversial August 2007 mandate under former Gov. Eliot Spitzer requiring the privately run, publicly funded schools to pay top union-level wages.

The change was fought by charter school organizers who argued the policy would increase the cost of building new facilities, which don't receive state building aid.

"While charter schools are a hybrid of sorts and operate on different models, they are significantly less 'public' than the entities in those four categories ," Judge Eugene Pigott wrote for the majority.


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Says it all really.

I read that today, and I thought how convenient for them.

They get all the publicity and public and private money for being "public charters", but the court says they really are not.

Amazing.

separate and unequal




-just like the good old days before the equal rights legislation.



my, my, how far we have fallen in less than 40 some years