Monaghan v. Board of School Directors of Reading School District

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• holding that the record was complete even though the petitioner did not present two allegedly important pieces of evidence below
• noting that the Reading School District’s attorney refused to testify “until the school district would agree to waive the attorney client privilege,” and as a result, the “School Board voted 4 to 3 to tentatively not waive its attorney/client privilege.”
• appeal from school board’s termination of school district business manager was in the first instance to the court of common pleas
• “Section 754(a) of the Administrative Agency Law gives the trial court discretion as to the manner of implementing a deficient record before the local agency.”
• “an unsupported finding of fact which is not necessary to the adjudication merely constitutes harmless error”
• As a local agency, the school board's \final decision\ is an \adjudication\ subject to review by the Common Pleas court.

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