On April 6, 2021, the PA Budget and Policy Center published a white paper titled  A Necessary First Step: Governor Wolf’s Proposal to Provide Adequate and Equitable Funding of Pennsylvania Schools. According to the paper:

“It is well known that Pennsylvania’s K-12 schools are inadequately and inequitably funded. But the extent of the problem is not fully understood. This paper uses new data and methods to demonstrate just how unfair—and in fact, morally unsustainable—the funding of elementary and secondary education is in the Commonwealth. It also shows that the proposal put forward in Governor Wolf’s 2021-2022 Executive Budget, or something much like it, is a necessary first step toward reforming the shameful way K-12 schools in Pennsylvania are funded. The origins of the deep inadequacy and inequity in school funding go back decades. For the purposes of this paper we can divide the source of the problem into two parts.”

To access the white paper, click here.