On Heels Of Court Win, Arthur Wolk Warns School Board

Partially in reply to to what he described as Lower Merion School District’s “The Sky Is Falling” response to the Commonwealth Court’s March 2 decision; one which affirmed the trial court’s order that barred the district from implementing a 4.44% tax increase for the year 2016-207; Arthur Wolk, in a press release, suggested that the school district was “digging their legal liability hole ever deeper.”

In an earlier  press release (March 2, 2020), Lower Merion School Distrct said that “the ruling has potentially devastating ramifications for every school district, student, parent/guardian and taxpayer across the Commonwealth. The School District warned that the ruling could encourage individuals, acting for reasons of their own, to file a lawsuit every time the PA. Department of Education grants an exemption to a local school district, even though the General Assembly has made it clear that decisions regarding those exceptions – and school funding generally – are not to be made in or by trial courts.”