On the steps of the Chester County Courthouse, public officials, education advocates and local actors gathered to call on state leaders to adopt a fair and adequate funding formula for Pennsylvania schools June 11. Pennsylvania is one of just three states in the...
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Advocates Demonstrate Locally For Better Education Funding Across Pennsylvania – CBS3 – June 11, 2015
Advocates for better state funding for education in Pennsylvania took their cause to the steps of the courthouses today in Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware counties. Norristown school district superintendent Janet Samuels pointed out that Pennsylvania is one of only...
A play and pleas for Pa. school funding formula – WHYY Newsworks – June 11, 2015
The debate over how to fund Pennsylvania's schools is heating up as the governor and lawmakers face a June 30 budget deadline. The advocacy organization Public Citizens for Children & Youth held press conferences demanding a fair school funding formula today at...
Montgomery County leaders: School funding formula unfair – The Intelligencer – June 11, 2015
Street theater came to the steps of the Montgomery County Courthouse on Thursday to highlight the need for a fair school-funding formula in Pennsylvania. Three students in Villanova University’s master’s degree theater program took turns giving dramatic readings from...
Local Montgomery County education advocates urge legislature to adopt fair education funding formula – The Times Herald – June 11, 2015
The day after the Basic Education Funding Commission extended its deadline to deliver a recommendation for a funding formula for Pennsylvania basic education to the Legislature, public school administrators and teachers across the commonwealth took to their local...
Montco rally to push for new school funding – Philly.Com – June 11, 2015
NORRISTOWN School officials, parents, and activists are planning a rally at the Montgomery County Courthouse on Thursday morning to advocate for a new state education funding formula. A legislative commission that has been studying the issue for a year was due to...
Principals: Give us the tools to succeed – Philadelphia Daily News – June 5, 2015
GIVE US THE resources and we will have better outcomes. That was the message yesterday from dozens of school principals as City Council continues to debate the Philadelphia School District's request for $103 million in new funding. In a letter delivered to Council and...
Philly Students Rally for More School Funding – NBC10 – June 4, 2015
Philadelphia city council has basically said "no way" to the mayor's tax hike proposal to fund the school system. Now they're working to come up with another way to raise money to at least cover the schools' debts. NBC10's Drew Smith has more. NBC10 - June 4, 2015 -...
Philly Principals, Supportive of Cursive Mandate, Advocate for New Funding – Philly Focus – June 4, 2015
Several principals today testified before Philadelphia City Council in favor of Resolution 150518, which would mandate cursive writing in the Philadelphia School District’s curriculum, though the majority of their three minutes was spent pleading for lawmakers to...
Philly Council introduces framework of school funding strategy – WHYY Newsworks – June 4, 2015
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter's plan to raise $105 million in recurring revenue for the city schools by hiking property taxes nearly 10 percent has hit a brick wall in City Council.Council members have spent much of the spring looking for an alternative to fill...