HARRISBURG, PA - JANUARY 17: Adam Shapiro arrives before his brother, Josh Shapiro, was sworn in as Governor of Pennsylvania at the State Capitol Building on January 17, 2023 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Shapiro defeated Republican nominee Doug Mastr HARRISBURG, Pa. - Lawyers for the districts that won a landmark school funding court case in Pennsylvania say that Gov.
Josh Shapiro's budget proposal falls short of the financial commitments that are needed to help the state's poorest school districts.Their criticism echoed reaction from a number of progressive groups and public school advocates that say the Democrat's first chance at responding to the court ruling was lacking.However, they acknowledged that the amount of money Shapiro has proposed for public schools is larger than almost any other year prior and that developing a new formula to distribute the funds will take time."This year’s proposed education budget does not do enough to meet the standard set by our state constitution and the urgency of this moment," the lawyers, who are from the Education Law Center, the Public Interest Law Center and O’Melveny & Myers LLP, said in a joint statement. "The moment calls for more."A coalition of groups called Level Up said Shapiro should have set aside money just for the state's poorest school districts to more rapidly close the gaps between Pennsylvania's poor and wealthy districts."It's just bizarre that Gov.