 The monitoring is a product of the PDE addressing its voluntary settlement in Gaskin V. Pennsylvania which ordered that special education students spend most of their school day (80%) in regular education classrooms with supplementary aids and services to assist funded by the taxpayers.In 2010, New Kensington-Arnold District was assigned to the Tier 1 monitoring list, due to students spending more than 80% of their day in a regular education classroom.The District was subject to on-site LRE monitoring by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.