{"id":158483,"date":"2023-11-08T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=158483"},"modified":"2026-10-09T01:33:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:33:38","slug":"shuffling-the-deck-wont-solve-the-pennsylvania-school-funding-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=158483","title":{"rendered":"Shuffling the Deck Won&#8217;t Solve the Pennsylvania School Funding Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/pennpolicy.org\/research_publication\/shuffling-the-deck-wont-solve-the-pennsylvania-school-funding-crisis\/\">Pennsylvania Policy Center<\/a> on November 8, 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In February 2023, Judge Ren\u00e9e Cohn Jubelirer called for a new funding system in Pennsylvania to fulfill the state\u2019s obligation to provide a thorough and efficient education for its children. But, opponents of increased education funding cite the state\u2019s high per-student spending, compared to other states, as a reason not to increase our total spending on K-12 schools.<\/p>\n<p>The comparison to other states\u2019 spending per student is misleading in multiple ways.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/shuffling-the-deck.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VIEW FULL-SCREEN OR PRINT<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"wppdfemb-frame-container-1\" style=\"-webkit-overflow-scrolling:auto;\">\n\t\t\t<iframe class=\"pdfembed-iframe nonfullscreen wppdf-emb-iframe-1\"\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?pdfemb-data=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbWFyY3N0aWVyLmNvbVwvYmxvZzJcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjNcLzExXC9zaHVmZmxpbmctdGhlLWRlY2sucGRmIiwidGl0bGUiOiJzaHVmZmxpbmcgdGhlIGRlY2siLCJpbmRleCI6MSwicGRmSUQiOjE1ODc2M30\"\n\t\t\t\ttitle=\"shuffling the deck\"\t\t\t\tdata-pdf-id=\"158763\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-pdf-index=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\tstyle=\"border:none;width:100%;max-width:100%;height:100vh;\"\n\t\t\t\tscrolling=\"yes\">\n\t\t\t<\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published at Pennsylvania Policy Center on November 8, 2023. In February 2023, Judge Ren\u00e9e Cohn Jubelirer called for a new funding system in Pennsylvania to fulfill the state\u2019s obligation to provide a thorough and efficient education for its children. But, opponents of increased education funding cite the state\u2019s high per-student spending, compared to other states, as a reason not to increase our total spending on K-12 schools. The comparison to other states\u2019 spending per student is misleading in multiple ways. &nbsp; VIEW FULL-SCREEN OR PRINT <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=158483\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1896,"featured_media":158482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-post"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-Feb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SHUFFLINGCardDeck.png?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158766,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158483\/revisions\/158766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}