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LANCASTER – The former Superintendent of Manheim Township School District claims he was the subject of baseless allegations of gender and age-based harassment leveled against him by other employees of the District.
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WILLIAMSPORT — A former worker with the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) alleges she faced racial discrimination by supervisors including being called a "slave" and "monkey brain."Laverne Dixon filed a complaint April 28 in the U.S.
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SCRANTON – A quintet of anonymous parents to disabled and medically vulnerable children has sued Delaware Valley School District and its School Board, over their decision to permit parent-backed student exemptions to the state’s mask mandate for Pennsylvania schools.
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The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) today provided information on a new law that permits parents, guardians, and students over the age of 18 to elect to have their children or themselves repeat their grade because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PHILADELPHIA - Khepera Charter School has been ordered to pay attorneys fees of $14,412.83, and the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) will pay $72,521 more to a lawyer for a woman who claimed her disabled child was not provided with a free appropriate public education (FAPE).
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PHILADELPHIA – One defendant accused of abuse in a $10 million class action lawsuit against Glen Mills Schools has filed a motion to be dismissed from the litigation, saying the individual charges against him do not belong in the same lawsuit.
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PHILADELPHIA – Juvenile Law Center, Education Law Center and Philadelphia law firm Dechert announced the filing of a $10 million class action lawsuit against Glen Mills Schools on Thursday, concerning allegations of abuse and educational neglect hundreds of its students suffered at the hands of facility staff, as well as a lack of oversight from education authorities.
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HARRISBURG — The state Superior Court has ruled in favor of Goddard Systems in a defamation lawsuit brought by two former teachers who alleged its Harrisburg school wrongfully discharged them when they reported a case of possible child abuse regarding one of their students.
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PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently denied a petition from the Pennsylvania Department of Education to review an amount owed to the U.S. Department of Education for misuse of federal funds.
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The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has reversed a 2014 decision that granted access to a series of emails sought by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette under the Right-To-Know Law
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A federal judge has denied post-trial relief to an African American former
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A number of parents and a healthcare workers’ union have filed a federal lawsuit against the School District of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Department of Education seeking to prevent a neighborhood elementary school in North Philadelphia from being shuttered as part of a widespread school-closing plan.
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A federal judge in Philadelphia has ruled that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania must immediately release education subsidies to the tune of $3.2 million to the beleaguered Chester Upland School District in suburban Philadelphia.
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The Chester-Upland School District and a class of taxpaying parents have filed a federal lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, its education department and various other state officials for failing to provide adequate state funding to the economically depressed school district through the end of the current school year.
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Attorneys for a suburban Philadelphia school district accused of placing black students in special education classes in disproportionate numbers as a back-door means of racial discrimination got their say in federal court Tuesday.
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The Lower Merion School District in suburban Philadelphia, which has been sued over its redistricting plan and the laptop webcam controversy, is once again facing litigation, this time over an alleged plot to place students in special education classes on the basis of race.
