The final OK on a $45 billion spending plan in Pennsylvania has been stymied over a dispute about creating a $100 million program to allocate state subsidies for students in the lowest performing districts to attend private or religious schools.
Education advocates were hoping to see a significant down payment — about $2 billion — to start addressing the system’s shortcomings, as well as a plan to overhaul how the state funds its schools. The lawyers hoped to see it as planning begins for the next fiscal year.
In other states with similar court rulings, action has not always been swift. But some states have managed to make sustained investments, said Maura McInerney, legal director for the Education Law Center, which also was involved in the funding lawsuit. House Republicans described the vouchers as a potential solution to the court's decision, saying that the court left reform open to a variety of paths.
Cutler and the House Republicans took a lead role in defending the school funding case, litigating it for years before the judge ruled against their side.
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