Mosaica Education, Inc. v. Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Appeals Board

OPINION BY

Judge COHN.

We are faced here with a possible statutory conflict between definitions in the Pennsylvania Prevailing Wage Act 1 (Wage Act), which make that act applicable only to “public bodies” using “public funds,” and a mandate in Section 1715 A(10)(iii) of the Charter School Law, 2 that requires the Wage Act to be applied to “construction projects and construction-related work” for charter schools, seemingly without regard to the fact that a charter school does not meet the definition of a “public body” under the Wage Act, and that construction projects pertaining to such a school…