Legal Opinion
William Penn School District v. Pennsylvania Department of Education
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided September 28, 2017No. 46 MAP 2015PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JUSTICE WECHT1
Appellant-Petitioners in this case are school district^, individuals, and groups with an interest in the quality of public education in Pennsylvania. They contend that the General Assembly and other Respondents collectively have failed to live up to the mandate, embodied in our Constitution’s Education Clause, that the General Assembly “provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public education.”2 They further allege that the hybrid state-local approach to school financing results in untenable funding and resource disparities between…
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- Gibbons v. OgdenSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
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