In re the Board of Directors

Opinion by

Judge Doyle,

This is an appeal by Valley Education Association (Association)1 from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County that adopted a redistricting plan submitted to it by the Hazleton Area School District (District) pursuant to Section 303 of the Public School Code of 1949 (School Code), Act of March 10, 1949, P.L. 30, as amended, 24 P.S. §3-303.

In a prior proceeding, the District had submitted a plan that had been adopted by the trial court. The Association appealed that order to this Court and challenged the plan, contending that it permitted the existence of…