Pa.'s top court to rule on SRC bid to scrap teachers' contract

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will decide whether the School Reform Commission has the power to cancel its teachers' contract, justices said in an order dated Monday.

The SRC did so last October, attempting to impose new economic terms on the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. The union immediately challenged the legality of the action.

Commonwealth Court justices sided with the union in January, but now the matter rests with the Supreme Court, the court affirmed in its order.

Neither the union nor the district was immediately available for comment Tuesday night. - Kristen A. Graham