Money for prisons but not for schools

I had thought that Pennsylvania was a reasonable state. Now I'm not so sure.  They are willing to close twenty-three schools in Philadelphia because the state can't find $304,000,000. But they can find $400,000,000 to build a new prison to add to a prison built ten years ago.  Plus, they are forfeiting $600,000,000 in taxes by granting corporations a break.

Adding further shame to such decisions is that in the schools being closed 81% of the students are black, although blacks comprise 58% of the total school population.  While 4% of the kids affected are white, whites comprise 14% of the total school population.