alleged the school funding system did not provide the Philadelphia school district with necessary funding to meet its student needs and therefore violated Pennsylvania's constitution that required "the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public education to serve the needs of the Commonwealth."
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- alleged the school funding system did not provide the Philadelphia school district with necessary funding to meet its student needs and therefore violated Pennsylvania's constitution that required "the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public education to serve the needs of the Commonwealth."
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The opinion
COLINS, President Judge,
concurring.
I concur with the scholarly opinion of the majority regarding sustaining the preliminary objections. However, if the factual scenario, as advanced in the pleadings of petitioners are true, the appropriate remedy for *967 the Courts would be the statutorily-prescribed remedy declaring the district a “financially distressed district” and to then undertake a Court-supervised restructuring of the district in totality, pursuant to Section 692 of the Public School Code of 1949, Act of March 10, 1949, P.L. 30, added by the Act of December 15, 1959, P.L. 1842, as amended, 24 P.S. § 6-692.