Five regional school districts, all with high minority populations living closer to the poverty line, are most harmed by Pennsylvania s famously unfair education funding structure, according to a new analysis by a good schools advocacy group.
Those districts are Pottstown and Norristown in Montgomery County, Reading and Antietam in Berks County, and Southeast Delco in Delaware County.
The 24-page study, recently released by Public Citizens for Children and Youth, places much of the blame on an aspect of Pennsylvania s school funding architecture called hold harmless.
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Contrary to its name, the practice â by which no school district receives less funding than it did the previous year â has harmed thousands of Pennsylvania school children, the majority of them black and brown, the study asserts.