Hopkins v. Public School Employes' Retirement Board

SMITH, Judge.

Paul D. Hopkins (Hopkins) petitions for review of an order of the Public School Employees’ Retirement Board (Board) that denied his request to purchase retirement credit for service rendered as a teacher at the Delaware Department of Correction’s Stevenson House, a juvenile detention center. The issue presented is whether Hopkins’ service as a teacher of school-aged students in a youth detention center constitutes service in a “public educational institution” within the meaning of Section 8304(b)(3) of the Public *1198School Employees’ Retirement Code (Code), as amended, 24 Pa.C.S. §…