For 25 years, starting in the early 1990s, Pennsylvania had no fair funding formula for distributing state school funding based on the number of students in each district and other factors that research shows impact the cost of delivering a quality education that meets state standards. Basic education funding in Pennsylvania remains both inadequate and inequitable. The 2022-23 BEF must take even bigger, bolder steps to reduce inadequacy and inequity. The Pennsylvania Schools Work campaign (PaSW) proposes to expand on the improvements made in the 2021-22 BEF in two ways: (1) by increasing the amount of money flowing to all districts through the Fair Funding Formula by $1 billion; and (2) through a second and larger Level Up supplement of $300 million. PaSW also advocates for another $200 million for special education funding and $25 million for career and technical education for a total of $1.525 billion more funding than in 2021-22. This brief analyzes the potential effects of the proposed $1.3 billion increase to basic education funding for the 2022-23 school year.