Over in Philadelphia the PA Supreme Court heard opening arguments on the distribution of state school funding dollars yesterday. The suit was filed in 2014 and named several state officials as defendants, and has now put the current Governor in the position of opposing the lawsuit and extoling the new funding formula signed into law as Act 35 of 2016.
The case has already raised the question of the judiciary’s role in determining education funding. The article on the case noted a citation of Federal data about the gaps between wealthy and poor districts in the state, and argument that has been made time and again but obfuscates the role of districts being able to raise money locally.
The new formula will apply to new money appropriated beyond 2014-15 for basic education purposes, as our most recent Brief pointed out.
