A state court has said Pennsylvania’s funding was unconstitutionally inequitable, which led to the creation of the Fair Funding Formula. The State House Appropriations hearings probed the topic today, as lawmakers clashed over whether the formula is helping fix disparities in education. For several years, Pennsylvania has sent record amounts of money to public schools, trying to fix the inequities. The formula steers more cash to schools deemed to have been most underfunded in the past.
