Commentary: Pennsylvania needs to invest in higher education for long-term benefits
A lot of fucus has been placed on the inequitable funding of Pennsylvania's public schools this year, and rightly so. The unchecked discrepancies t...
A lot of fucus has been placed on the inequitable funding of Pennsylvania's public schools this year, and rightly so. The unchecked discrepancies that we have lived with for decades have compounded on themselves, creating a clear set of winners and losers. Unfortunately, and quite predictably, free-market economics has fueled the division by allowing wealthy families to buy into high performing districts, increasing the tax base (and therefore the funding available to those districts) while also displacing lower income families into lower performing districts.