Historic Pennsylvania public school funding lawsuit finally heading to trial this fall

Nothing more than four lanes of traffic separate one of Pennsylvania’s wealthiest school districts from one of its poorest.

Sitting north of City Avenue, which demarcates northwestern Philadelphia from its suburbs, is Lower Merion School District. Students at its flagship high school enjoy a college-style lecture hall, a greenhouse, and state-of-the-art athletics and theater facilities, thanks to a $106 million renovation that started in 2004.

Travel south across Lincoln Highway and you’ll find yourself in the School District of Philadelphia.

The state’s largest public school district is home to students such as Skylar Armstrong. By the time he graduated from high school in 2019, Armstrong had spent more than a decade in schools that didn’t employ librarians, where classrooms had leaky roofs and got “hot like ovens” during summer months, he recounted during a press conference Friday.

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