Daily News | Pa. lawmakers have ‘politicized’ education funding, plaintiffs argue in landmark trial’s closing arguments
For more than 150 years, Pennsylvania’s constitution has required the state to provide a “thorough and efficient” system of education.
Her contention — that lawmakers had failed to assess or deliver the money required to meet the constitutional mandate, instead permitting “a system of educational haves and have nots” in a state that relies more heavily than most on local revenue to fund schools — came during closing arguments before a Commonwealth Court judge in HarrisburgTestimony in Pennsylvania’s school funding trial is over.
Defendants will make their closing arguments Thursday afternoon. While Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has not contested the case’s claims, Republican legislative leaders — Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman and House Speaker Bryan Cutler — have, arguing that Pennsylvania is already meeting constitutional standards, and painting a rosier picture of the public education system than the deprivation depicted by superintendents of the plaintiff school districts.
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