A Short Annotated Lexicon
Of Selected Terms
Relevant to Pennsylvania Public School Law
With commentary
© 2001 by Russell Dennis
Alternative education
program
Alternative rating
form
Alternative rating
system
Annulment of
certificate
Age for (of) beginners
Basic Education
Circular
BEC
Board of Public
Education
Board of School
Directors
Category "A"
data
Category "B"
data
Category "C"
data
Cause (for suspension)
Cause (for termination)
Certificate
Chief school
administrator
Code of Professional
Practice and Conduct for Educators
Code of student
conduct
Commissioned officer
Charter school
Child (children)
of school age
Compulsory school
age
Corporal punishment
Council of
Basic Education
Council of
Higher Education
Cruelty
DEBE-333
Demotion
Department of Education
Department of Public
Instruction
Disciplinary
suspension
Dismissal
Expulsion
Formal hearing
Furlough
Hearing
Hearing examiner
Home education
program
Home schooling
Immorality
Incompetency
Induction
Induction
plan
Informal
hearing
In loco parentis
In-school suspension
Intemperance
Lay off
Letter of eligibility
Migratory
child
Moral turpitude
Negligence
Non-resident (of school district)
Persistent
negligence
PDE - 5501
Professional employe
Professional
Standards and Practices Commission
Public School Code of 1949
Rating
(of teachers)
Realignment
Realignment
demotion
Regional charter
school
Regulations
of the Pennsylvania State Board of Education
Resident school
child
Residency requirement
(employees)
Revocation of
certificate
School Age
School board
School board hearing
School board
rules and regulations
School day
School district
School entity
School nurse
School term
School year
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Education hearing
State Board of
Education
State Board
of Vocational Education
Substitute
Superintendent
Superintendent
of Public Instruction
Suspension
Suspension of
certificate
Teacher
Teacher
Certification Law
Teacher
Tenure Act
Teacher tenure
hearing
Temporary professional
employe
Tenure
Tenured teacher
Termination
of contract
Unsatisfactory
rating
Untenured teacher
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