Daily News | AG Josh Shapiro sides with plaintiffs in school funding lawsuit, saying Pa. is violating its constitution
on public schools, and say it’s the legislature’s role, rather than the court’s, to determine how much money to allocate — have filed lengthy briefs outlining the facts behind their cases and their legal conclusions.
“This is a big deal. The people of the Commonwealth know that Pennsylvania students deserve better, and that our state constitution demands it,” Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg, staff attorney at the Public Interest Law Center, which brought the case along with the Education Law Center, said in a statement. He said Shapiro “has made clear that our state legislature has failed to live up to this standard set by our state constitution, and that students have paid the price.
Shapiro did not appear to address a second legal claim from the plaintiffs — that given Pennsylvania’s heavy reliance on local taxes to pay for public education,in favor of wealthy school districts that it violates students’ equal protection rights.
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