Trending
Funding for the Poorer Public Schools
To the Editor:
Recently, Commonwealth Court issued a favorable ruling in a lawsuit filed on behalf of the poorer public schools in Pennsylvania for additional funding. What can the State Legislature do to generate additional public school funding for those poorer public schools without increasing taxes?
Presently, there are approximately 490 local public school districts in the State, with the usual administration staffing. The state of Maryland only has 24 public school districts.
One thing the Pennsylvania Legislature did to generate revenue for those poorer public schools would be to do away with all of the State's Intermediate Units, and let the 67 county administrative units assume their functions.
Both of these actions would make revenue available to increase funding for the poorer public schools.
David L. Faust
Selinsgrove