Learn How Much $ Your School District Would Receive w/Gov. Wolf’s Budget Proposal
from our friends at Education Voters of PA: Pennsylvania ranks 45th in the nation for state share of funding for schools. According to a benchmark in state law, Pennsylvania school districts are underfunded by an eye-popping $4.6 billion each year. When the state is cheap, it puts excessive pressure on property taxes to fund schools.…
Read More2022 Advocacy Effort in Support of Public School Funding
Please join Pennsylvanians for Fair Funding’s spring advocacy effort this spring by signing up here. PFF is supporting the Governor’s education budget, which would increase BASD’s Basic Education Funding from the state by $17 million. This advocacy effort is targeting 6 key senators who are powerful enough to make a difference in budget negotiations, and enlisting advocates in their districts to reach out one…
Read MorePublic Schooling in America: Measuring Each State’s Commitment to Democratically Governed Schools
America’s public schools, students, and families are under a near-constant attack from political special interests looking to privatize and profit at the expense of our children. Each state represents new profit streams and frontiers for education exploitation, and the Network for Public Education (NPE) has released its findings in its latest report Public Schooling in…
Read MoreUrgent: Sign This Petition to Clean Up the Federal Charter Schools Program
For the first time since the federal Charter Schools Program was established in 1994, the U.S. Department of Education is setting forth meaningful regulations to bring greater transparency and stop waste and fraud. These rules will make a tremendous difference in stopping the spread of charters run for profit and ensuring that charters that increase…
Read MoreTake Action on HB 2169
From Education Voters of Pennsylvania, Every few years, a few people in the legislature try to bring back the idea of vouchers, which give public dollars to pay tuition for private/religious schools. HB 2169 is the latest attempt to establish an education voucher program in the Commonwealth. It was voted out of the House Education…
Read MoreHouse Bill 2169 – Lifeline Scholarship Program
More about this proposed bill and why we must urge all members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to vote “no” on House Bill 2169, which would create a tuition voucher program for students costing taxpayers and the schools that need resources the most almost $170 million. Read the full statement from Concerned Education Stakeholders…
Read MoreWEBINAR: Inside the Courtroom – The Highs, The Lows, The Shocking Moments and Emotional Stories of the PA School Funding Lawsuit
From the good folks at PA Schools Work Join PA Schools Work for our next Lunch & Learn webinar this Friday, April 1 at noon about the recently-concluded PA school funding lawsuit. Attorneys and advocates who were intimately involved in the historic case will give attendees the inside story about how the case came together, the shocking…
Read MoreTrial Date in School Funding Lawsuit Now Scheduled for Nov. 12
Read up more on the William Penn School District et al. v. Pennsylvania Department of Education et al. HERE You can also stay up to date with what is going on with the Education Law Center by signing up to their newsletter HERE
Read MoreA Nice Summary of the History and Work of the Proud Parents
Please look over this pdf that was presented a few years back on creating an effective parent advocacy group and strategy. We are in the process of writing our next chapter! Will you be a part of it? CLICK TO VIEW: 2018 PASA-PSBA Presentation
Read MoreVirtual Town Hall Meeting – The PA Fair Funding Initiative
Come One Come All—Please share with others Virtual Town Hall Meeting Confused about Pennsylvania’s current system for funding public schools, the Fair Funding Formula, LevelUp, and what an upcoming court case might mean for it all? “The nation’s most fiscally disadvantaged local public-school districts of significant size lie to the north and west of Philadelphia,…
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