Girard School District v. Pittenger

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

Plaintiffs, twenty-nine (29) local school districts and three (3) taxpayers residing in three of those school districts, filed a complaint in equity and a petition for declaratory judgment in this Court alleging that the State Board of Education (State Board) lacks authority to promulgate certain regulations entitled “Students Rights and Responsibilities” and found at 22 Pa. Code §12.1 et seq. Plaintiffs pray that these regulations be declared null and void and that the defendants1 be enjoined from enforcing them. The defendants had filed preliminary…