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Ex-Manheim Township School District Superintendent alleges he was target of baseless harassment claims
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. -
Former Penn Department of Education employee alleges she was called 'slave'
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. -
Anonymous parents sue Delaware Valley School District over decision to provide exemptions to mask mandate
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. -
PENNSYLVANIA GOVERNOR'S OFFICE: Department Of Education Provides Information On New Law That Allows Grade Level Retainment
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. -
Khepera Charter School and Pennsylvania DOE ordered to pay $87K in lawyer fees
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). -
Defendant in $10M Glen Mills abuse lawsuit seeks dismissal; He's accused of assault
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. -
Class action against Glen Mills Schools seeks $10M for alleged abuse of students
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. -
Goddard School wins defamation case on appeal brought by former teachers
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. -
PennDOE's request to review U.S. Department of Education financial recovery order denied
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. -
Office of Open Records erred in granting records request to Pittsburgh newspaper, Commonwealth Court says
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 -
Judge denies new trial for schoolteacher who said transfer was motivate by race, age
A federal judge has denied post-trial relief to an African American former -
Parents sue over planned closing of North Phila. elementary school
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. -
Judge orders Pa. to release $3.2 million in education funding to Chester Upland School District
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. -
Chester Upland School Dist. sues Pa. for lack of education funding, claims it's on brink of financial collapse
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. -
Lawyers in Lower Merion School District discrimination case spar in court
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. -
Lower Merion School District, frequent target of litigation, facing claims of segregation
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.