Despite the essential role that education support professionals and teachers play, too often they are impacted by a public school employer’s decision to subcontract and privatize essential school services that are typically performed by public school employees. When outside vendors and for-profit companies are providing essential school services rather than educators who know their students, schools, and communities, it can negatively impact workers, lead to disruption in essential school services that impact students and families, and degrade public transparency and accountability.
The Responsible Contracting in Our Public Schools Act (SB1043/HB1175) establishes key safeguards to protect students, families, communities, and educators from harmful privatization and subcontracting practices, including:
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