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Court Sides With Charter Schools in Wage Dispute Courthouse News Service

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Court Sides With Charter Schools in Wage Dispute

(CN) - New York's prevailing wage laws do not apply to all charter school construction projects, the New York Court of Appeals ruled.
In 2007 the New York Department of Labor informed the Charter Schools Institute and the state Department of Education that it would start enforcing prevailing wage laws on charter school projects.
This was a change from the labor department's position, which it articulated in 2000, that charter schools were exempt from such laws because they were not public entities.
The New York Charter School Association took the matter to court, joined