Pennsylvania’s School Funding System: Inequitable, Inadequate, and Unconstitutional
Oscar Bregman Memorial Program
Monday, Sept. 25 at 3:00 PM in the Charry Sanctuary
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Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg will explain the ways that Pennsylvania’s school funding system fails Pennsylvania’s children, with those children who need the most having the least, despite their communities trying the hardest. He will discuss the nearly nine year journey of a constitutional lawsuit that took that system on, culminating in Commonwealth Court’s declaration this year that Pennsylvania children in low-wealth communities are being deprived of their right to a comprehensive, contemporary, effective public education. He will discuss what comes next in the fight to provide Pennsylvania’s children the education to which they are morally and legally entitled.
Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg is a Senior Attorney at the Public Interest Law Center. His practice focuses on education and housing issues. Mr. Urevick-Ackelsberg’s work includes leading the Law Center’s litigation team in Pennsylvania’s landmark school funding trial and serving as class counsel in a challenge to misrepresentations by attorneys representing landlords in Philadelphia eviction filings.
Prior to joining the Law Center, Mr. Urevick-Ackelsberg was an attorney at Community Legal Services, an Assistant Chief Counsel for the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, and a law clerk to the Honorable Cheryl Ann Krause of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the Honorable L. Felipe Restrepo of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Urevick-Ackelsberg graduated from Macalester College with a B.A. in Political Science and earned his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.