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This bill prohibits public schools with a record of serious labor law violations from converting to charter schools until compliance.
Why it matters
Targets schools with a history of severe labor law violations. , specifically those found to have intentionally interfered with or discriminated against employee rights under public sector labor law, preventing them from converting into charter schools until such issues are resolved.
Empowers the Public Employment Relations Board. as the authority to determine whether a school's labor law violations rise to the level that would block a charter conversion, giving labor oversight bodies a direct role in the charter approval process.
Creates an incentive for compliance with labor laws. , as schools wishing to convert to charter status must first resolve any patterns of egregious labor violations, potentially improving working conditions for staff prior to any conversion attempt.
Maintains a path for future conversion. by allowing previously disqualified schools to reapply for charter status if and when they come into compliance, rather than imposing a permanent ban.
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Block Charter Schools With Labor Violations
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- Referred to education
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Block Charter Schools With Labor Violations
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Jamaal Bailey
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STATE OF NEW YORK
10691
IN ASSEMBLY
May 10, 2018
Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to establishing a charter school program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2851 of the education law is amended by adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
(d) Notwithstanding any provision of this subdivision or any other law to the contrary, an application for the conversion of an existing public school to a charter school shall not be approved or issued to any school that demonstrates or has demonstrated a practice or pattern of egregious or intentional violation of subdivision one of section two hundred nine-a of the civil service law, as determined by the public employment relations board, involving interference with or discrimination against employee rights under article fourteen of the civil service law, provided, however, nothing herein shall preclude an applicant from submitting an application pursuant to the provisions of this section at any future time.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15417-01-8
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