by Susan Spicka | Jun 1, 2020 | blog
On May 29th, Governor Wolf signed a stopgap budget that was passed by the General Assembly. This budget provides five months of flat funding for most state programs and a full twelve months of flat funding for public education. There are no cuts to basic and special...
by Susan Spicka | May 22, 2020 | blog, Take Action
Cyber charter schools are aggressively hunting for students to fill their schools and their bank accounts and they are using your tax dollars to do it. What they aren’t telling parents is that EVERY. SINGLE. CYBER. CHARTER. is on the list of the worst schools in the...
by Susan Spicka | May 15, 2020 | blog
This week, the US Department of Education (USDE) approved Pennsylvania’s application for the commonwealth’s share of COVID-19 relief funding for schools in the CARES Act. The CARES Act will provide $523.8 million to Pennsylvania through the Elementary and Secondary...
by Susan Spicka | May 4, 2020 | blog, Take Action
This week we learned the toll that the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on our public schools. The Pennsylvania Association of School Business Officials (PASBO) estimates that school districts will lose between $850 million to $1.07 billion in local revenue alone in the...
by Susan Spicka | Apr 26, 2020 | Take Action
We recently joined our partners from the PA Schools Work campaign in urging Pennsylvania’s Congressional delegation to support additional, significant, flexible funding for public K-12 education in the next phase of emergency COVID-19 response legislation. This...
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