Philadelphia School District v. Human Relations Commission

Opinion by

Judge Wilkinson,

This Court has before it five cases in which the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission has ordered a school district to submit a plan to achieve racial balance in its public schools. In all instances, the school district has appealed, assigning one or more of the following reasons on which it requests this Court to reverse the order of the Commission:

1. There is no finding of a de jure segregation nor is there any evidence to support such a finding.

2. The standards used by the Commission in determining that there was de facto segregation are arbitrary and…