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WEST MIFFLIN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT v. ZAHORCHAK

No. 48 WAP 2008.

4 A.3d 1042 (2010)

WEST MIFFLIN AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT, East Allegheny School District and South Allegheny School District, Appellants v. Dr. Gerald L. ZAHORCHAK, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Education, Duquesne City School District and Duquesne Education Association, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided September 29, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul N. Lalley , Campbell, Durrant, Beatty, Palombo & Miller, P.C., Huntingdon Valley, for West Mifflin Area School Dist., et al.

Thomas W. Corbett, Jr. , Office of Atty. Gen. for Com.

William C. Andrews , Andrews & Price, for Duquesne City School Dist.

Thomas W. Scott , for Duquesne Education Assn.

Rosa Alease Copeland , Paul H. Titus , Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, L.L.P., Ann G. St. Ledger , Joseph Michael Miller , PA Dept. of Education, for Pennsylvania Dept. of Education, et al.

CASTILLE, C.J., SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER, TODD, McCAFFERY, ORIE MELVIN, JJ.

OPINION

Justice SAYLOR.

This is a direct appeal from the order of the Commonwealth Court upholding the constitutionality of certain portions of Act 45 of 2007, which amended Pennsylvania's Public School Code of 1949.1

According to the facts as stipulated by the parties, in July 2000, then-Secretary of Education Eugene W. Hickok notified the Duquesne City School District ("Duquesne") that, due to its history of...

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