Welcome to Pennsylvania, where a common-sense judgement takes 8 years in court.
And regressive Republicans respond with more illogical nonsense.
A judge in Commonwealth Court finally ruled this week that the state’s school funding system violates the state constitution.
It took school districts, parents, and advocacy groups banding together to file the lawsuit back in 2014, but it was really kind of a no-brainer.
It basically comes down to whether you can provide a mountain of funding to rich kids while throwing a few pennies at poor kids.
Spoiler alert: You can’t.
The reason? The state Constitution guarantees a “thorough and efficient system of public education to serve the needs of the Commonwealth” – and cake for rich kids while poor kids get crumbs just isn’t thorough or efficient or meets the needs of the Commonwealth.
The problem is that the state
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