When it comes to divvying up the state dollars going into public education, it’s good to be poor.

A good chunk of the $12 billion going into education in the recently enacted 2014-15 state budget that Gov. Tom Corbett signed last week is driven out by a distribution formula that directs a disproportionate amount of state funding to poorer districts.  “The premise of it has always been to provide more state funding to less wealthy school districts just because of their inability to raise local funds,” said Tim Eller, press secretary for the state Department of Education.

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Source: www.pennlive.com (Patriot-News), by Jan Murphy on July 14, 2014 at 3:21 PM, updated July 14, 2014 at 4:32 PM.