Trial phase concludes in case challenging Pa. school funding
“With one of the most unequal school funding systems in the nation — one which relies heavily on local property taxes thus skewing resources in favor of wealthy, white school districts — Pennsylvania’s system for funding public schools is ‘a system of haves and have nots,’ said Robson, and the case may well decide what is to be done about it.
Roughly 52 percent of Pennsylvania’s students get their education in underfunded school districts.”