Legal Opinion
Colonial School District v. Commonwealth
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 15, 1992No. 35 Misc. Docket 1991PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Judge.
Before this Court are preliminary objections filed by the Department of Education (Department) to Petitioners’ amended petition for review in the nature of a complaint in mandamus. Petitioners are thirteen school districts in Montgomery County (School Districts) who challenge a notification issued to them by the Department and Secretary of Education on or about February 23, 1987 that the Department had “capped” the excess costs of special education reimbursement at a level of eight percent of the School Districts’ total budgets, thus denying them $154,403 in reimbursement funds.…
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