I'm actually surprised Penn state doesn't offer bus shuttle service to/from either Lewistown or Tyrone for the Pennsylvanian. I feel like this would be frequently used, at least during the weekends.

>In most cases, higher funding results in higher achievement.

Lower Merion, for instance?

All 501+ of them, right?

This is my great. I do not trust the state Republicans to care about education. There's a very real possibility this leads to less funding overall. Instead of providing poorer schools more money, they'll just reduce the amount of money euchre schools have.

Hershey and Steelton.

Mainheim/Hempfield Township and SDOL (one of the plaintiffs in this case).

Camp Hill and Harrisburg.

Lower Merion and Norristown/Philly/UpperDarby/fill in the blank

Tyrone essentially exists as the PSU stop, though arguably Lewistown is just as close. Altoona gets a good amount of passengers though, one of the highest used stations between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh.

Cool. You should have your sister post a picture with proof of date and location. She's gonna blow the lid off this thing!

Read up on Uvalde, Clown

This very issue came up across the Commonwealth when a well-meaning group marketed the current system as the best that could make it thru the legislature.

This ruling will be appealed to SCOPA and the current funding scheme will continue until they rule because the legislature is too busy chasing their tails and litterboxes to give a shit (pun intended).

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Pittsburgh Public spends almost double the amount per student as does the large, 2nd or 3rd ring suburban districts around it.

Those districts are filled with wealthy people that is true. They have a huge tax base to draw from, but they pale in comparison the to non-residential tax base available to the City.

So if double isn’t enough to over come the disparity, is triple? Quadruple?

What’s the magic number?

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They are “facts” without context.

Are you accounting for the overall budget? Number of students? Legacy costs? Buildings? Charter school costs? Allentown had to get money from the state otherwise they’d be insolvent because the property taxes would leave them millions short. Even when they raise them based on the maximum amount allowed, they still cannot close the budget. There’s nothing left to cut. It’s a mess.

Again, you’re over-simplifying and have very little idea of what goes into a school budget.

Coatesville school district is one of the worst in the state. With all the tax money going to the Charterer Schools, as the kids don’t attend the local public schools. It will be interesting to see how this decision impacts that district, and if will lower the current property taxes at all.

Does the high school still have doorless cinder block stalls in the boy’s restroom?

Do your work to confirm your guess? Nah.

More resources, better schools.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/29/upshot/money-race-and-success-how-your-school-district-compares.html

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/05/in-wealthier-school-districts-students-are-farther-apart/481041/

https://www.chalkbeat.org/2019/8/13/21055545/4-new-studies-bolster-the-case-more-money-for-schools-helps-low-income-students

Mentally ill people need treatment not a seat on a school board.

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Is the Jeep design that timeless? It doesn’t look old.

And NJ has the best public schools in the country. Go figure. Lots of reasons for that though.

What

Oh, definitely, I was referring more to the elementary/high school experience.

I don't disagree that college is a great experience, but not everyone has that experience. I had friends who were military/traveled/worked and went to college at an older age, sometimes with families. I have other friends who never even went to college. They never got those experiences but made mistakes and grew in other ways.

This is how New Jersey got an income tax. After the Abbott decision in 1973, the state was ordered to find funding other than property taxes for poor school districts. Hence, a brand new income tax in 1976. And nobody's ever complained about public schools in Camden, Trenton or Newark now that those cities are showered in money.

That’s a gross simplification. Allentown had to beg and borrow every year to get more funding because they were woefully, shamefully deficient. The funding formula needs a complete overhaul.

My husband worked in administration there. Those kids were severely penalized for lack of stable funding. I hope this ruling begins to remedy this.