K-12 Education

Our lawyers are frequently hired by private and public entities in the K-12 education arena to handle a wide range of matters including the following:

• To act as school solicitor.
• To conduct an in-depth analysis of the delivery of special education in a large public school district in order to make recommendations on how to improve services and make the best use of public dollars.
• To assess, analyze and make recommendations regarding how to improve the tax collection efforts for the school district.
• To assess the possibility of reducing transportation costs in a school district.
• To represent school districts as creditors in bankruptcy.
• To represent a charter school in its special education due process hearings.
• To representa a charter school in a religious discrimination dispute.
• To represent entities in connection with E-rate disputes.
• To represent the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's Department of Education in a trial before the Commonwealth Court, which sought to improve the financial management and status of an academically and financially distressed school district.
• To represent the Commonwealth and a School District in litigations involving placing caps on the number of children enrolled in charter schools.
• To conduct a five week trial in the Commonwealth Court on the funding phase of school desegregation litigation.