COMMONWEALTH COURT

SCHOOLS AND EDUCATION

Statutory Funding • Special Education Students • Administrative Remedies • Exhaustion

Chester Community Charter Sch. v. Dep’t of Education, PICS Case No. 12-0985 (Pa. Commw. en banc May 23, 2012) Pellegrini, P.J.; Brobson, J., dissenting (21 pages).

Petitioner’s application for summary relief seeking to compel the Secretary of Education to withhold state subsidies from the Chester-Upland School district because it failed to fund it in the amounts required by law for school years from 1998 to 2007 in an amount exceeding $7 million was denied.