Poorer districts win challenge to state public school funding – Metro Philadelphia

A Pennsylvania judge ruled Tuesday that the state's system of funding public schools falls woefully short and violates students' constitutional rights, siding with poorer districts in a lawsuit launched nearly a decade ago in pursuit of billions of dollars in additional annual aid.

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