An attorney for a public school district drew questions from the state Supreme Court last week when he argued that the court could employ statutory construction to determine his district did not have to pay a cyber charter school for students who attended a program there that the district did not offer.
In particular, Justice Max Baer’s attention seemed to be peaked when attorney Thomas E. Breth of Dillon McCandless & King in Butler, Pa., told the justices during arguments in Slippery Rock Area School District v. Pa Cyber Charter School that determining the extent of the interplay between the Public School Code and the Charter School Law could be resolved by simply looking to Section 5-503 of the PSC. Choosing to do otherwise, Breth continued, could “torture” the legislature’s intended result.
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