Court Rules Against Charter In Troubled Pennsylvania District.

The Delaware County (PA) Daily Times (5/31, Kopp) reports that a Pennsylvania state court has ruled "against Chester Community Charter School in two lawsuits in which the school sought to obtain delinquent charter payments from the Chester Upland School District." The piece notes that the school had argued that it "was owed an undisputed $3.86 million and entitled to receive about $18 million more from Chester Upland and the Pennsylvania Department of Education during the remainder of the school year. The court ruled, 4-3, against awarding Community Charter summary relief for those payments."

Pennsylvania Districts At Odds With State Over Reserve Cash.

The York (PA) Dispatch (5/31, Shaw) reports that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's (R) office and state education officials "are wagging the finger at school districts, saying they're pleading for more money at a time the state believes they should just turn to their reserve funds." However, "local school district business managers say a website set up by the governor's office -- www.investinginpastudents.com -- highlighting how much districts have in their fund balances is misleading. For one thing, $3.2 billion might sound like a huge amount but breaks down to about $6.5 million per district, right in line with what an average district's budget would call for, according to business managers."