§ 296a. Assault of school personnel
(a) Whoever, under circumstances not amounting to an assault in the first or second degree assaults a principal, assistant principal, superintendent, assistant superintendent, counselor, teacher, substitute teacher, paraprofessional, aide or monitor of the Department of Education, or program manager or director of education programs in a career academy, alternative education institution, or other educational institution, […]
§ 297. Assault in the third degree
(a) Whoever, under circumstances not amounting to an assault in the first or second degree— (1) assaults another person with intent to commit a felony; (2) assaults another with a deadly weapon; (3) assaults another with premeditated design and by use of means calculated to inflict great bodily harm; (4) assaults another and inflicts serious […]
§ 291. Assault defined
Whoever— (1) attempts to commit a battery; or (2) makes a threatening gesture showing in itself an immediate intention coupled with an ability to commit a battery—commits an assault.
§ 292. Assault and battery defined
Whoever uses any unlawful violence upon the person of another with intent to injure him, whatever be the means or the degree of violence used, commits an assault and battery.