A lawsuit alleging the Pennsylvania General Assembly has violated the state’s constitution by failing to provide fair and adequate funding for public education will go to trial in September, according to an order issued this week by Commonwealth Court Judge Renée Cohn Jubelirer. The order makes firm a September 9 trial date that had previously been tentatively scheduled. The trial is expected to last several weeks as school districts, including William Penn, will make their case that the state’s funding formula is skewed and has harmed the state’s poorest children.

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Source: Daily Times, June 24, 2021.