In Re Tameka M.

How later courts described this case

• holding that “[t]he Juvenile Court maintains a continuing plenary jurisdiction in dependency cases under 42 Pa.C.S.[] § 6351 and has the power to review the circumstances of dependent juveniles and to question both the legal custodian, CYS, and the foster parents concerning the condition and the needs of the dependent child”
• stating, “In ordering a disposition under Section 6351 of the Juvenile Act, the court acts not in the role of adjudicator reviewing the action of an administrative agency, . . . rather the court acts pursuant to a separate discretionary role with the purpose of meeting the child’s best interests,” quoting In re Lowry, 484 A.2d 383, 386 (Pa. 1984)
• stating, “[i]n ordering a disposition under Section 6351 of the Juvenile Act, the court acts not in the role of adjudicator reviewing the action of an administrative agency, . . . rather the court acts pursuant to a separate discretionary role with the purpose of meeting the child’s best interests.”
• approving trial court’s order directing a county agency with legal custody of a child to pay the foster family’s expenses for enrolling the child in a Montessori school, where that educational structure was in the best interest of the child, despite the county’s objection that the expense was not reimbursable

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