Associated Press
Pennsylvania is the latest state where the public school funding system was found to be unconstitutional, but the experience in other states suggests there's no guarantee of swift, significant or longstanding change for the poorer school districts that sued in hopes of getting billions of dollars more for their budgets. If the decision survives, it should have at least some impact on school budgets, since lawmakers elsewhere have generally responded with additional funding when confronted by a judge, according to scholars who have studied similar litigation in dozens of states. In nearly every one of those cases, however, lawmakers did not approve enough extra funding to be fully compliant with judges' orders, said Joshua Weishart, a West Virginia University law professor who specializes in education rights.