After the Commonwealth Court rejected the arguments made from several plaintiffs over school funding in PA, the case has been appealed to the state’s highest court for a remedy. The Commonwealth Court’s decision said that the issue is one for the General Assembly to craft, and the state Supreme Court rejected a similar case in the 1990s.
What is interesting is that a Legislative Commission wrapped up nearly a year of hearings on the issue of school funding and is expected to release recommendations in less than three weeks.
So one could surmise that unless the Supreme Court acts with all deliberate speed, it probably won’t render a decision on the case until after the recommendations of the Commission are released. Would the Court rule on the Commission’s non-binding recommendations? Or would it circumvent the work of the Commission–and whatever its recommendations are–and craft its own formula and instruct the General Assembly to to follow it? It is hard to see either of those happening.
