Village Charter School v. Chester Upland School District

In Village Charter School v. Chester Upland School District, 813 A.2d 20, 26 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2002), the charter school demanded a subsidy redirection; the Secretary responded that the payment could not be disbursed to Village Charter School until the school district received its next monthly state subsidy payment three weeks later. Village Charter School demanded immediate deduction from the school district's state education subsidies and sought relief from this Court. The Court dismissed Village Charter School's petition for review for the reason that the statutory remedy in Section 17-1725-A(a)(6), 24 P.S. 17-1725-A(a)(6), had not been followed. In reaching this conclusion, the Court noted that the Charter School Law had been amended to provide for a post-withholding hearing, rather than a pre-withholding hearing.