The Good, Bad & Ugly in PA’s budget resolution
Lawmakers ended a five-month budget stalemate on Wednesday (December 13th) when they passed code bills that finished up the 2023-2024 state budget. Below we look at the good, the bad, and the ugly for K-12 schools in the School Code, House Bill 301. Please don’t...
NEW REPORT: PA voucher schools use tax $$ to advance discrimination
Education Voters of PA recently released a report that examines discriminatory policies and practices in private and religious schools that participate in Pennsylvania’s Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) school voucher program. Students receiving...
PA’s Beautiful Movement to Fund Public Schools
On Tuesday, November 14th, more than 250 Pennsylvanians rallied on the Capitol steps in Harrisburg in support of a state funding system that will ensure ALL children have access to the comprehensive, effective, contemporary public education they are guaranteed by the...
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For those of you interested in the Independence Law Center -- you absolutely MUST subscribe to the York Dispatch. Several York County school districts recently contracted with ILC. The Dispatch has been on it. Not just covering meetings, but filing RTKs, like this story shows. Dayspring Christian Academy has received more than $3.4 million tax dollars through the EITC/OSTC private school voucher programs since 2015. A new voucher program or additional funding for EITC/OSTC will = more tax $$ pouring into this discriminatory school. @GovernorShapiro If we have a school board that doesn't hold charter schools accountable, we get more charter school administrators and consultants getting paid tax $ for superintendent-like salaries to run just one or a few schools rather than hundreds. If we have a school board that doesn't hold charter schools accountable, we get more charter school mgmt orgs like Universal Companies with executives imprisoned for corruption and schools haphazardly closed mid year. If we have a school board that doesn't hold charter schools accountable, we get more situations like the Math, Civics, and Sciences Charter School closure...
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