Poorer districts win challenge to Pennsylvania’s public school funding
The school districts that sued included the School District of Lancaster and the Shenandoah Valley School District.
The school districts that sued included the School District of Lancaster and the Shenandoah Valley School District.
Gov. Tom Wolf’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year would include a 5% increase.
The commonwealth is expected to have a $3 billion budget surplus and more than $7 billion available in American Rescue Plan dollars.
An average shrinking district saw funding increase by $3,200 per student over the past three decades, according to a January report from Public Citizens for Children and Youth, a nonprofit led by a member of former Gov. Ed Rendell’s cabinet.
Many rules around public accountability and transparency remain unwritten, or lack requirements for a detailed accounting of how the money was spent.