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Upper Darby SD to reregister rising 6th and 9th graders; deadlines, hearings and protections explained
Summary
District staff outlined a reregistration campaign for rising sixth- and ninth-grade students and families on multiple-occupancy or support affidavits, set a June 18 deadline with earlier follow-ups, and described protections for displaced students under McKinney-Vento and recent state law changes.
Brian Yerson, the district director of people services, and Ed Monahan, supervisor of central registration, presented a reregistration plan for the 2025–26 school year that targets rising sixth- and ninth-grade students and families registered under multiple-occupancy or support affidavits.
Yerson said the reregistration window opens March 26, 2025, and families can register online or in person at the high school registration office. The district will send an initial districtwide notice via school communications, followed by targeted phone calls and emails. Families who do not complete reregistration by May 31 will receive a hand-delivered letter at school; the administrative deadline for completion is June 18. Disenrollment hearings will begin in July for families who still have not complied, Yerson said.
Yerson and Monahan described outreach plans including translated messages through the ParentLink system and translated hand-delivered letters when needed. The district said it will hold evening and weekend events and provide school-based access to help families complete the process.
The presenters provided counts for the affected groups: as of the morning of the meeting there were 223 support-affidavit registrations, 860 multiple-occupancy registrations, about 921 rising sixth-grade students (current fifth graders) and 927 rising ninth-grade students (current eighth graders). They also said the district currently identifies 378 students as displaced under the McKinney-Vento Act.
Board members asked about protections and statutory limits. District staff recapped recent legal protections: McKinney-Vento safeguards for displaced students, and Act 67 (noted in the meeting as enacted February 2024), which adds procedural protections and allows parents appeal rights before disenrollment is final. Staff said students covered by those protections cannot be physically disenrolled while appeal windows or protections remain in force.
Yerson said the district will continue repeated outreach and keep families on contact lists until reregistration is complete. He emphasized translation and multiple notice methods (phone, email, postal and hand delivery) to ensure families receive timely information and hearing notices if the process is not completed.
