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§ 13-1314. Attendance in district to which territory of residence formerly attached

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 24 P.S. EducationEffective: November 22, 2000

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 24 P.S. Education
Chapter 1. Public School Code of 1949 (Refs & Annos)
Article XIII. Pupils and Attendance (Refs & Annos)
Subarticle (a). Attendance (Refs & Annos)
Effective: November 22, 2000
24 P.S. § 13-1314
§ 13-1314. Attendance in district to which territory of residence formerly attached
(a) All pupils residing in any territory belonging to any school district established by the act, approved the eighteenth day of May, one thousand nine hundred eleven (Pamphlet Laws 309), which territory at the time of the approval of said act was attached to another school district for school purposes, may, if they so desire, attend during the entire school term of each year the public schools in the district to which the territory in which they reside was formerly attached. The district in which they reside shall pay to the district in which they attend the tuition charge provided for by this act: Provided, That if the school districts in which such pupils now reside has or shall hereafter, by the establishment of new schools or otherwise, provide within reasonable distance proper school facilities of like grades to those in the district to which they were formerly attached, then in any such case, such pupils shall attend the schools in the district in which they reside. In case of dispute, the decision of the Superintendent of Public Instruction1 as to sufficiency and reasonableness of the school facilities provided by the school district in which such pupils reside shall be final.
(b) Pupils and their younger siblings under the age of twenty-one (21) years, born or yet unborn of a family that resides in the territory, that is located in a county of the second class, that has been transferred from a township of the first class which has adopted a home rule charter under the former act of April 13, 1972 (P.L. 184, No. 62), known as the “Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law,” or under 53 Pa.C.S. Pt. III, Subpt. E2 (relating to home rule and optional plan government) located in a school district of the second class, to a township of the first class located in a school district of the second class, for school purposes may, if they so desire, continue to attend the public schools in the district to which the territory in which they reside was formerly attached for the duration of their attendance in public schools. The district in which they reside shall pay to the district in which they attend the lesser of the State subsidy of the district of residence or the district of attendance in accordance with provisions regarding basic education funding.

Credits

1949, March 10, P.L. 30, No. 14, art. XIII, § 1314. Amended 2000, Nov. 22, P.L. 672, No. 91, § 2, imd. effective.

Footnotes

Now Secretary of Education; see 71 P.S. §§ 1037, 1038.
53 Pa.C.S.A. § 2901 et seq.
24 P.S. § 13-1314, PA ST 24 P.S. § 13-1314
Current through the end of the 2023 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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