Upper Darby outlines 2026-27 reregistration process; special-education plan moves to public review
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District officials told the Education & Pupil Services Committee the reregistration window for rising sixth- and ninth-grade students opens Feb. 25; a 28-day public review of the special-education plan will follow a final planning meeting this week, with a April committee review and May 1 PDE submission deadline.
Upper Darby School District officials outlined plans for student reregistration and the district's three-year special-education plan during the Education & Pupil Services Committee meeting.
"We are requiring our rising sixth and ninth grade students to reregister for the 2026-27 school year," said Brian Yersone, director of pupil services, noting families may re-register online or in person. The district will begin accepting reregistrations on Wednesday, Feb. 25, and officials set a June 1 completion deadline after which disenrollment hearings will be scheduled for students who do not complete the process.
Yersone told the committee the reregistration process helps confirm residency for students transitioning to middle and high school. He said, "during the 2024-25 school year, 68 students were removed from our rolls after hearings took place," and that number was 59 in 2023-24; he added those totals do not include families who withdrew or who reregistered after hearings.
The district said it will communicate with families through the committee meeting, ParentLink messages (which the administration said provide automated translation to families'native languages), weekly phone and email outreach from the Pupil Services office, and in-person events. The central registration office will hold an evening session on April 7 and additional May events at middle schools; the administration said families not registered by May 1 will receive sealed letters to bring home.
On the special-education plan, the presenter said planning began Jan. 15 with teachers, parents and staff and that one final planning meeting is scheduled this week to refine a draft. The administration plans a 28-day public review (draft to be posted via ParentLink in early-to-mid March), a committee review at the April Education & Pupil Services meeting, and a submission to the Pennsylvania Department of Education by May 1, 2026.
The committee took no final vote on either item at the meeting; both were informational and are expected to return to committee and board agendas as required by the district's public-review and approval processes.