Civil Funding War
Civil Funding War
$700 Billion Economy and $160 Billion a Year in Government Funding
BUT Pennsylvania Still Knowingly-Underfunds its Poorest Boys and Girls
“It’s Going to Take a Non-Violent Civil Funding War to Fix This”
(Harrisburg, PA) – This situation is terribly wrong and it’s time to fix it. For decades Pennsylvania has purposely and knowingly-underfunded our most vulnerable children in mostly minority school districts in broad daylight. Despite wide-knowledge of this situation, the last three (3) state budgets have done little to fix ...
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January 2, 2018
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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...
Erie Times-News: State Legislature OKs recurring funding for Erie schools
By Ed Palattella
Original Article
House votes Tuesday to make $14 million in additional aid permanent for Erie School District. Senate voted in favor of the measure on Monday.
The Erie School District’s long fight for additional state funding has ended with a stunning political win in Harrisburg that will shape the 11,500-student public school system in the years ahead.
With a vote from the state House on Tuesday evening, the Legislature approved $14 million in recurring funding for the Erie School District, a long-desired financial boost that the district said ...
Keystone Crossroads: Fair funding advocates decry Pa. leaders for playing politics with specialty school money
SEPTEMBER 18, 2017
BY KEVIN MCCORRY
For years in Pennsylvania, school funding coming from state government was criticized as being irrational, unpredictable, and too-tied to backroom politics.
That's a large part of why many celebrated last year when the state adopted a new student-weighted school funding formula built entirely on objective data.
But there are still times when lawmakers throw that objectivity out the window.
Take for instance the $23 million lawmakers agreed to funnel into what they call a "educational access program" in this year's ...
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 ...
EQUITY FIRST RELEASES 2017 LIST OF CRUSHED SCHOOL DISTRICTS
EQUITY FIRST RELEASES 2017 LIST OF CRUSHED SCHOOL DISTRICTS
The Brutal Truth of Basic Education and Special Education Funding
13 Districts Get Less Than 50% Recommended Level of BASIC Education Funding
34 Districts Get Less Than 50% Recommended Level of SPECIAL Education Funding
While 99 Districts Receive TWICE, 2X, Recommended Level of Basic Education Funding
Incredibly, 15 Districts Get 300% MORE than their Recommended Basic Ed Funding
No End of Sight as Already Over-Funded Districts Keep Getting MORE
(Harrisburg, PA) – On the eve of the deliberately-wo...
Op-Ed: Let’s get PA out of the Back Seat of School Funding
David Parker (R-Monroe)
Former Member PA House of Representatives
Director – Citizens for Fair School Funding
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June 21, 2017
Op-Ed: Let’s get PA out of the Back Seat of School Funding
Now is the time for Pennsylvania to use the new funding formulas on all Education Funding and stop discriminating against schools with higher minority populations.
(East Stroudsburg, PA) June 21, 2017. This past December marked the 60th anniversary of the day Rosa Parks got to ride ...
EQUITY FIRST JOINS ‘EDUCATION APARTHEID’ RALLY TO FIGHT FOR SCHOOL FUNDING EQUITY
Citizens for Fair School Funding
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June 21, 2017
EQUITY FIRST JOINS ‘EDUCATION APARTHEID’ RALLY TO FIGHT FOR SCHOOL FUNDING EQUITY
2017 Agenda Asks Governor Wolf and General Assembly to End the Nation's Worst School Funding Discrimination in Basic Education and Special Education Funding
(Harrisburg, PA) – June 21, 2017 – Equity First joined with numerous of grassroots coalitions, faith-based members of the community and legislators in ...
Op-Ed: 13 Pennsylvania School Districts Receive Less Than 50% of their Recommended Level of Basic Education Funding
Citizens for Fair School 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 ...
Bucks, Montgomery school district officials ask state lawmakers for more money for public education
By Chris English, staff writer
Area school district superintendents, other administrators and school board members had a clear message for Harrisburg Wednesday during a roundtable discussion and news conference at the Centennial School District administration building in Warminster.
"Please give us more money."
In a free-flowing discussion organized by a group called The Campaign For Fair Education Funding, officials said the lack of state financial support for education in Pennsylvania compared to most other states forces property taxes up more than they need to ...