Legal Opinion

Webster Central School District v. Public Employment Relations Board

New York Court of Appeals

Decided May 1, 1990PublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

Kaye, J.

In the statute permitting a Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) to offer academic summer school programs (Education Law § 1950 [4] [bb]), the Legislature clearly manifested its intention that school districts’ decisions to participate in such cooperative educational programs not be subject to mandatory collective bargaining with teachers’ unions. We therefore grant the school districts’ petition to nullify PERB’s determination requiring that the decisions be bargained.

BOCES was established some 40 years ago to provide added services, on a cooperative…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Cohoes City School District v. Cohoes Teachers Ass'nNew York Court of Appeals · 1976
  2. Rosen v. Public Employment Relations BoardNew York Court of Appeals · 1988
  3. Syracuse Teachers Ass'n v. Board of EducationNew York Court of Appeals · 1974
  4. Board of Education of City School District v. New York State Public Employment Relations BoardNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
  5. City School District of Elmira v. New York State Public Employment Relations BoardNew York Court of Appeals · 1989

3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Board of Education of City School District v. New York State Public Employment Relations BoardNew York Court of Appeals · 1990
  2. Schenectady Police Benevolent Ass'n v. New York State Public Employment Relations BoardNew York Court of Appeals · 1995
  3. Lippman v. Public Employment Relations BoardAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1999
  4. City of Mount Vernon v. CuevasAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2001
  5. Uniform Firefighters of Cohoes v. CuevasAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2000

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