We help schools and the people that run them.

O’Donnell Stacey LLC has expertise on a wide range of issues affecting both public schools and private schools. We can serve as general counsel or as solicitor, and we are frequently called upon to provide special counsel on discrete legal matters. We’ve seen a lot and can help you strategize quickly and efficiently to help you begin, or get back to, your primary job of educating children.

  • Charter school applications, from advice to appeal
  • Defending charter school non-renewals and revocations
  • Charter renewal
  • Charter school funding issues, including federal grants
  • Charter school management agreements
  • Construction of public and private school facilities: new school construction, zoning, real estate purchases, real estate tax exemptions
  • Special education, from advice to litigating due process disputes
  • Parent issues and disputes
  • Student discipline, including expulsions
  • Pennsylvania Right to Know Law requests
  • Sunshine Act compliance
  • Ethics Act compliance
  • Regulatory issues
  • Negotiating and structuring contracts with charter school vendors
  • Labor and employment matters, including employment discrimination
  • Act 55 Board training and designing Act 55 programs
  • General Board training and organizational/governance matters
  • Drafting a full range of administrative policies and procedures
  • Assistance with charter school closure, including corporate dissolution and wind-up in Orphans’ Court