“The city as far as I am aware is bound to pay union scale for the trades. Guiliani tried to get around this and there were large angry demos about this. Remember the Daily News pix of the carpenter punching a police horse in the jaw when the cops tried to halt their march through mid town?
Anyway, all these renovations that the Charters do to their halls and classrooms, are they performed by unionized labor? Are the contracts for such projects no bid? . . .
Phase II of mayoral control is charters and school closings big time. We need all the help we can get. The building trades unions (including the operating engineers which the school custodian belongs to I believe) might see their interests at stake here and take an interest even though Unity caucus thinks charters are just dandy.” (Sean Ahern)
Angel Gonzalez posted a report of the court ruling on wages for maintenance/custodial/repair workers and thinks that charters “will use this ruling to their favor even in a Public School Building housing their charter school.” (Italics his.)
Court: NY charter schools not subject to prevailing wage laws
April 02, 2009 3:50 PMALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York appeals court says charter schools’ contracts for construction, renovation, repair and maintenance are not subject to a state labor law requiring payment of prevailing wage rates.
The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court is reversing trial courts and the state Labor Department’s 2007 opinion that followed an amendment to the law.
According to the appeals court ruling Thursday, the prevailing wage provisions apply to contracts by public agencies or third parties either acting on their behalf or as beneficiaries.
The five justices ruled the law limits application of the wage rule and does not specifically apply to private educational corporations such as charter schools, which hope to save money by negotiating less costly contracts.
Someone else jumped in about the extra cost of bussing to all the charters, saying this is not publicized enough:
“This must be very costly to bus students from all over to the charter schools. The teachers at PS 15 talked about this. The enrollment from the charter in their building is less than 50% (if I remember correctly) from the community. The rest are ALL bussed in free of charge. At a time of budget cuts to all our public schools, the DOE is paying for this bussing.”
Talking about bussing, NYC Educator put up this article in the NY Post — a different kind of bussing sure, but another ramification of unchecked non-transparent, non-accountable corporatization of the schools.
I’m sure this discussion will have updates . . .
— JW
Grassroots Education Movement 
mean 9.5 month leases. Anything loegnr would be socialist.The charter school teachers will, I’m sure, have it worse. Probably no contracts at all. It’s the educationinamul entrepisseure who gets the 15 year contract. As in the guy who plays golf with Ricky on Fridays.What an amazing putt, Rick! You beat me by one! I mean, I’ve been on the green for 6 putts, and you nail it in one! Now about those test scores You’ll still be straight with the numbers if you just change a couple 1s to 7s. Get it? Striaght with the numbers? Yeah, nose candy’s on me
Posted by Elijah | February 8, 2014, 2:27 pmwrote:Who is Michele Rhee and for whom does she work and who’s her boss whose job it is to evaluate her lying dishonest power hungry habits?Michele Rhee was treated as the second coming when she became superintendent of Washington, D.C. schools. She got involved with politics and when the mayor was defeated, she was booted out. She is now in some sort of think tank on education, IIRC. In the last week or so there has been reporting on deceit in test scores in the D.C. schools–which would negate her reputation for raising the scores.She, like others, should remember you can never live up to your hype, especially when it is based on false premises.
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