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Advocates and parents press for adequacy funding; business group urges accountability and workforce alignment
Summary
Education advocates cited the Commonwealth Court finding and pressed the legislature to fill a roughly $4 billion adequacy gap; district and parent witnesses described how recent funding has been used for tutors, counselors and infrastructure while the business community called for stronger accountability and workforce alignment.
Education advocates, parents and business representatives told the House Education Committee the Commonwealth must move faster to fill an identified school funding adequacy gap and pair new dollars with accountability and workforce alignment.
Maura McInerney of the Education Law Center told the committee the Commonwealth Court’s ruling obligates the legislature to address the remaining adequacy gap and urged a four‑year timeline to close it. “The legislature cannot treat the need of adequate and equitable funding as something that is optional,” McInerney said. She asked lawmakers to plan investments that would address what she described as a roughly $4,000,000,000 shortfall.
District and parent examples McInerney provided district examples of how recent funding and federal relief dollars were being used: Greater…
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