The Philadelphia Inquirer: PA School Funding is “Inadequate,” “Inequitable,” and “Illogical,” Court Hears As Landmark Trial Closes

Lawyers for petitioners argued that the commonwealth’s education-funding system discriminates against poor students and violates its constitution, which requires that the state allocate enough money to districts to educate all students. Katrina Robson, arguing for the petitioners, delved into the state’s education clause, asserting that the framers “imposed on the General Assembly a mandate to provide a system of education that was thorough and efficient.”

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