Making education in Pa. ‘look different’ focus of Senate budget hearing

By: Jan Murphy

With a nearly 800-page Commonwealth Court ruling that declared the state’s school funding system unconstitutional hanging over the heads of lawmakers, Pennsylvania’s Acting Education Secretary Khalid Mumin said he sees that as an opportunity to do right by students.

“It’s impressed upon us that we do – and I believe we have – the moral compass and influence to do it,” Mumin said during Wednesday’s budget hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee that continued into the afternoon.

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