An appeals court on Wednesday upheld the state Department of Education’s power to police local school boards for wasteful employment practices and other mismanagement.

The Appellate Division turned away a labor group’s challenge to the School Funding Reform Act of 2008 and other statutes and regulations that were adopted following reports about exorbitant payout clauses in contracts to local school board business officials and about rampant nepotism in some districts.

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