PURPOSELY PUNISHING PENNSYLVANIA KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS
(Harrisburg, PA) - Unless Pennsylvania Governor Wolf acts swiftly, kindergarten students at 150 school districts will remain underfunded for their entire K-12 educations. Clearly, this is punishment by zip code.
All who have eyes, all who have ears.
I see buildings burn, riots pillage, people rant, but sadly no one cares about the 800,000 kids that are short-changed $1.22 Billion every year. $1.22 Billion!
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While 350 over-funded school districts have celebrated the 2016 passage of House Bill 1552, the Basic Education Funding ...
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13 Pennsylvania School Districts Receive Less Than 50% of their Recommended
Level of Basic Education Funding
while 99 School Districts Receive TWICE
their Recommended Level of Basic Education Funding
(Harrisburg, PA) – January 2, 2018 – For 2018, we wish the NFL Steelers and Eagles would take a knee to end racial discrimination in Basic and Special Education Funding in Pennsyl...
David Parker – My Turn: Our students deserve fairly funded schools
Published August 17, 2017 in the Pocono Record
This past December marked the 60th anniversary of the day Rosa Parks got to ride on the front of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. We’ve made a lot of progress on civil rights across this great country since Dec. 21, 1956; but for some reason, in August 2017, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, we are still treating African-Americans and other people of color like second-class citizens when it comes to education funding.
In 2014, our legislature recognized that Pennsylvania distributes education funding ...
Op-Ed: 13 Pennsylvania School Districts Receive Less Than 50% of their Recommended Level of Basic Education Funding
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June 8, 2017
13 Pennsylvania School Districts Receive Less Than 50% of their Recommended Level of Basic Education Funding
99 School Districts Receive TWICE the Recommended Level of Basic Education Funding
(Harrisburg, PA) – June 8, 2017 – Basic Education Funding is the largest General Fund allocation in the Pennsylvania state budget. For FY 2017-2018, Governor Wolf has proposed spending ...