When the workplace is affiliated with a union, the rights of charter school employees are covered by labor and constitutional laws. These provide the same protective rights granted to employees in the public and private sectors.
However, the details are somewhat different between these two sectors. Therefore, to discover the exact discrepancies between these cases, the educator must first determine if he or she is a public or private employee.
Characteristics of Both Sectors
Generally, if the employees are hired directly by a public charter school and their paychecks are issued by the institution, they most likely belong to the public sector.
However, if the employees work at a public charter school but were hired directly by a private management company that provides educational services to the public charter school and the private company issues their paycheck, then the employees are most likely considered private-sector employees.
Nomenclature
Private companies that contract with charter schools to provide educational services—which occurs in less than 30% of charter schools—go by different names: charter-school management organization (CMO) or education management organization (EMO).
We refer to both types of employees as charter school employees, regardless of whether they are employed directly by the charter school or by a CMO/EMO.
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