Former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis popularized the phrase “laboratories of democracy” when he wrote that “a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.”
Well, if you consider education to be a cornerstone of democracy because an informed citizenry will understand what it is and its importance, know its history, and have the critical thinking skills to see the threats to it and figure out what needs to be done to improve and protect it, then my state of Pennsylvania has a chance to be just one of those places.
That’s because a Commonwealth Court judge recently ruled that the state’s school funding system so badly underfunds poor districts that it violates the state constitution.
Commonwealth Court Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer wrote that the way the state funds public schools creates a situation where “students attending low-wealth districts are being deprived of equal protection of law,” according to a story on the Spotlight PA website that talks about the challenge now facing the state’s government to create a system of more equitable funding.
Musings of a Nobody 
Rick, is it possible that the republicans who did everything in their power to allow more and more school age children to be killed in mass shootings now depriving the surviving students the funding for a better education. These corrupt cowards have got to go. Our children need educated in order to compete in a fast moving world. If the republicans are not stopped we are not going to continue as a world leader in the foreseeable future. 👍👍👍👍👍.
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Thanks Fred.
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