· harrisburg — one notable area of bipartisan consensus in pennsylvania ’s recently finished, four-month-late state budget? · public schools across pennsylvania are facing an escalating crisis as the state’s budget impasse enters its fourth month, leaving critical education funds frozen and forcing administrators to make painful financial decisions. · in february 2023, the commonwealth court ruled that pennsylvania ’ s school funding system is inequitable, inadequate, and unconstitutional — a landmark decision that made clear the state has a legal duty to fix the crisis. · the paper highlights the need for proper education spending allowances in the 2024–25 state budget as mandated in the commonwealth court ruling on the matter. The budget also adds $105 million in basic. Adequacy funding is funneled to financially struggling school districts, aimed at shrinking the gap between wealthy and poor school districts. Josh shapiro on tuesday called for putting more than $525 million. A group of new policies that boost oversight of cyber charter schools, and also give public school districts a break on the tuition they pay to these schools. · pennsylvania lawmakers finally agreed on a $50. 1 billion budget that brings long-awaited relief to school districts caught in the middle. The plan delivers new education funding and reforms, though not without financial concerns from the delay. “as the budget deadline looms, this report brings into clearer focus the incredible injustice of pennsylvania ’ s school funding ,” stier said. · two years after the courts found pennsylvania ’ s school funding system was inequitable and fundamentally broken, gov.

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