PHILADELPHIA — Michael Churchill, 83, has spent nearly his entire adult life working to build a more just world, from the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964 onward.
Without a doubt, a highlight among those years of civil rights work came last week, he said, when a Commonwealth Court judge declared Pennsylvania's system of funding public education unconstitutional. Churchill was a chief architect of the case, first filed in 2014 — but really, decades in the making.
When you ask Churchill an education-funding question, prepare to receive a master class. But he takes longer to answer why he's spent his life the way he has.
