The Pennsylvania judge who ordered Tuesday to remove five elected school directors from the nine-member West Chester Area School board, reinstated them Friday.
There was a dispute over how much time the school had to respond to a petition filed by West Chester Area School District parent Beth Ann Rosica.
Mahon ordered the parties to appear in court Friday morning for arguments and at that time, said he would issue an order vacating his March 29 order removing the directors, school board attorney Kenneth Roos of the Wisler Pearlstine law firm in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, told The Epoch Times.
"The judge didn't think the school board members should be held responsible for the mistakes of the attorneys, and I think that's reasonable. I think that that's fair," Rosica told The Epoch Times.
The petition to remove is based on a seldom-used Pennsylvania education statute that allows for the removal of school directors for "Failure to organize or neglect of duty." Rosica believes there was a failure in the way the board handled its COVID-19 masking policy.
When Pennsylvania ended mandatory school masking, the West Chester Area School District continued requiring masking, despite requests from parents to end it.
The school district did not have a comment about the situation but a school spokeswoman said Superintendent Bob Sokolowski wrote a statement updating parents on the status of the school board.
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Pennsylvania Judge Reinstates 5 Ousted School Board Members
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