A lawsuit challenging the way Pennsylvania funds its public schools is back before a panel of judges in Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court in Philadelphia, writes Kevin Tustin for the News of Delaware County.

Plaintiffs in the case include the William Penn School District, five other school districts in the state, several groups of parents, the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small Schools, and the NAACP’s Pennsylvania State Conference.

Last September, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned an earlier Commonwealth Court decision to dismiss the suit, thereby sending it back to the lower court.

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The suit contends the way Pennsylvania funds its public schools is unfair, inadequate, and unconstitutional.

Attorneys for the state of Pennsylvania counter that a constitutional violation is moot because of the state’s fair funding formula, and that local control justifies any inequity in the state school system.

Attorneys for plaintiffs contend that school districts without strong tax bases have no control in the current funding system, that districts rely on state funding to help pay for public education, and that the current level of state funding is not adequate.

Read more about school funding in the News of Delaware County by clicking here.

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