A Systemic, Widespread Failure

In Philadelphia Inquirer:

“I’m not going to stand here and say all of the school buildings … are the Taj Mahal,” said Patrick Northen, a lawyer for House Speaker Bryan Cutler (R., Lancaster). But he said children have “chairs to sit in, desks or tables to write at, walls and roofs, working plumbing” — and adequate opportunities to achieve.

Maddie Hanna and Kristen A. Graham

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pa-school-funding-trial-opening-arguments-20211112.html