Why Public Schools Never Have Enough Money
22nd August 2023
It’s the same story every year. Along with notices advertising the local high school drama department’s production of Grease come headlines announcing the school district is in dire straits and schools will literally fall to pieces if they aren’t pumped full of life-saving funding, stat. Year after year, it’s the same old song and dance: school funding increases, and the next year they need even more. Why is it never enough, though, and where does all the money go?
At the beginning of August here in Pennsylvania, for instance, House Democrats embarked on an SOS — Save Our Schools — tour, alleging the state’s public schools are “unfairly funded.”