By Marc Stier, Eugene Henninger-Voss, Diana Polson, and Stephen Herzenberg<\/p>\n
This paper updates the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center\u2019s analysis of the inadequacy and inequity in school funding to take into account the 2022-23 budget enacted at the end of June 2022. Our conclusion is that, despite the substantial $850 million addition to basic education funding and level up funding this year, Pennsylvania’s K-12 school districts remain both inadequately and inequitably funded. The funding gap between rich and poor school districts as well as those with a large and small share of Black and Hispanic students, remains deeply wrong, from both a moral and pragmatic point of view. These inequities are fundamentally unfair. And the harm the long-term prospects of too many of our kids as well as of the Pennsylvania economy as a whole. <\/a>[1]<\/p>\n\n\t\t