The lawsuit is about reworking the pa school funding mechanism. Hopefully to direct more money to schools that do not have the benefit of a wealthy tax base- that’s the “more money” part.

That's being said there's no reason to not fix this problem to help SOME districts. An imperfect STEP to a solution is better than doing nothing because the step doesn't fix the whole problem

These outlandish right wing bias confirming anecdotes are always lies.. sad times

I grew up playing them in sports and even compared to rural ass bumblefuck Bangor the kids from Palmerton always stood out. That place is like the Hills Have Eyes and it’s not just the awful slag heaps. Again, coming from Bangor I know slag heaps but at least ours have some charm!

I imagine a line from north to south. State college, harrisburg, york, and it goes into maryland to baltimore.

tyvm... oh, sheetttt... they werent kidding when they said almost 800 pages.

My 'rights' to gender-specific bathrooms? Does this nut want to start burning down all the homes with unisex bathrooms? These people are all so coocoo.

What's up with litter boxes? Is there a story there or is this some weird anti furry rant?

Don't know, it's behind a pay wall. What does it say?

What exactly do you think the plaintiffs are looking for here? Less money?

Isn't that essentially what the site is?

I never said education funding should be cut.

You mind telling me what the percent of IEP students is in PPS versus say- the overall for Pennsylvania?

Since the need is so substantial certainly that IEP figure should be off the charts right?

Ideally we would have passenger rail to all major population centers, and it just takes a deliberate choice.

PA has roughly the same population density as Portugal which has 3622 km of rail while PA has 9516km of rail (NOT including SEPTA or PAAC commuter rail systems). This is over 2.5 times more rail.

PA has 13 million residents (or so) which places us between the Netherlands and Belgium which, combined, have less rail than PA.

PA and the nation of England are practically the same size in area, and England had 11,672 km in 2020. England has some of the most heavily used rail system in the world, and they only have a bit over 2000 more km of rail line than we do.

The reason we do not have enough passenger rail in PA is by design and it was a choice. We could have a decent passenger rail system

We could have a line from Harrisburg to York to Hanover to Gettysburg. Or from York to Baltimore.

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Republicans are clowns.

I think he is lying about the cost too. How does one bathroom cost $50,000?

You have a viable solution of increasing funding to improve outcomes but don’t want to because it won’t solve all problems. It should be a multi-tiered response that includes an increase of funding to an equitable level.

He’s got a rough road ahead of him. Child geniuses don’t really fare any better than the average kid.

Going to college at 10. Who would choose that for themselves?

How about Lackawanna?

Where do the kids go? They tried a version that in Michigan (where I am now). They disbanded the district and divided the kids up into neighboring districts. Those districts were NOT happy. They did it once and only once. Charter schools? Those scores aren’t any better. Plus, a lot of those kids return when the parents when they realize what they’re really getting. I wish I had the numbers for that handy.

Every single person in regards to this says I know it’s true because a friend of a friend or a sister in law or someone like that said it’s true but not one single person can provide proof

One main district and 3 that carved out the "desirable" sections. If I remember correctly two of them were established within 2 years of Brown.

One of them was almost completely within the city's district before it splintered.

https://www.pacourts.us/Storage/media/pdfs/20230207/214401-587md2014--memorandumopinionfiled(feb.7)reduced.pdf

Owen J and Pottstown

How many school districts today in the city of York?

Great point!