Pennsbury School District v. Commonwealth, Department of Education

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

Like School District of Pittsburgh v. Commonwealth, Department of Education, 492 Pa. 140, 422 A.2d 1054 (1980), these cross-appeals present the issue whether, under section 2502(d) of the Public School Code of 1949, the Commonwealth’s Department of Education must compute the state basic instructional subsidy of a school district experiencing a teachers’ strike and providing less than the state-mandated number of days of instruction as though no strike had occurred and the full number of days had been provided.

A teachers’ strike during the 1976-77 school…