‘License to discriminate’? Hershey charitable school seeks to exempt itself from Pa. oversight.

By Bob Fernandez Pennsylvania’s richest charity, the 2,000-student Milton Hershey School for poor children, is seeking through sealed court actions to exempt itself from the state’s discrimination laws even as it spends millions of dollars defending itself against federal discrimination lawsuits. The politically connected institution says it deserves the same discrimination exemptions as neighborhood parochial schools that …