McKeesport Area School District v. Cicogna

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

A period of declining school enrollment, and the resulting reduction in professional teacher employment, produces stresses for the school districts and teachers involved, and also generates difficult legal issues of the sort involved in this case.

The McKeesport Area School District has appealed from an order by Judge Doyle of the Common Pleas Court of Allegheny County which directed the district to reinstate furloughed teacher William Cicogna, with back-pay.

*101The questions are:

1. Was Mr. Cicogna’s suspension a result of the substantial decrease in pupil enrollment in the…