PA Public Education Funding is Anything But Adequate

(This article appears in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

By Andrew Lewis

Western Pennsylvania school districts have a problem that doesn’t fit neatly into Pennsylvania’s formula for “adequacy funding.” Per recent reporting, several districts appear ill-equipped to handle a large influx of special-education students, despite increased state-level adequacy funding.

But funding for Pennsylvania public education has never been higher. The commonwealth now spends nearly $24,000 per student, the tenth-highest rate in the nation. In fact, the new state budget added about $565 million in adequacy funding to districts with supposed “funding gaps.”

Clearly, how Pennsylvania funds public education is deeply flawed.

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