Every Pennsylvania student deserves a quality education no matter where that student lives But Pennsylvania’s system for funding public schools is broken: We are one of only three states without a basic education funding formula to distribute adequate resources both...
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Increasing Students’ Success and No Relief for Schools – May 8, 2015
Community Schools Coming to Philadelphia More than a million students in 3,000 schools across the nation attend schools that offer students and families access to a variety of social and health care services on-site, and common sense tells us that’s a good thing for...
Pennsylvania Leaves $19 Billion in Tax Breaks on the Table – The Rick Smith Show – May 6, 2015
#PABudget: Pennsylvania Leaves $19 Billion in Tax Breaks on the Table (audio) Donna Cooper, Executive Director of Public Citizens for Children and Youth joins Rick to discuss school funding and which is more important, tax credits for business or textbooks and...
Inside Take: Money for Schools, or Tax-Free Helicopters? – Philadelphia Magazine – April 28, 2015A
(This is an opinion column from a Citified insider.) Most Americans know that the federal tax laws are filled with carefully crafted tax breaks for certain special interests. What Pennsylvanians need to know is that our state’s tax system is also riddled with...
Community meeting slated April 29 on school funding formula – Delaware County News Network – April 28, 2015
Haverford Township School director and chairman of the Delaware County School Boards Legislative Council Larry Feinberg will serve as moderator for a panel discussion on public school funding in southeastern Pennsylvania, 7 p.m., April 29, at Springfield High School,...
William Penn struggles with bleak budget numbers – Daily Times – April 26, 2015
When it comes to the budget for the William Penn School District, Rafi Cave can’t tell you what will happen next. “We have no idea,” Cave, the vice president of the school board, said. “We can’t forecast the current method.” The current method’s lack of a funding...
How to Make a Collective Impact on Urban Education – Drexel Now – April 23, 2015
Aristotle once said that “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” and we are learning this concept holds true in education. An emerging strategy, known as “collective impact,” provides an opportunity for individuals and organizations that would otherwise work...
Philadelphia Group Lobbies Pa. Legislators For Fair Funding For Public Schools – CBS3 – April 22, 2015
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A bus full of young voters left center city Philadelphia this morning for Harrisburg, where they were meeting later in the day with state legislators to talk about education funding. Hopping on a bus parked on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the...
A plan to make schools perform or be run by Pennsylvania – The Philadelphia Inquirer – April 22, 2015
Pennsylvania's lowest-performing schools could be given an ultimatum - reform quickly, or face relegation to a new, state-run district - under legislation to be introduced soon. The bill, crafted by State Sen. Lloyd Smucker (R., Lancaster), could remake the...
Young Voters Tell Legislators to Adopt Fair Funding Formula for Schools in This Year’s Budget
HARRISBURG, PA (April 22nd, 2015) – A group of 50 young voters from southeastern Pennsylvania rallied in Harrisburg Wednesday to call on the Pennsylvania Legislature to adopt a fair and equitable funding formula for schools in this year’s budget. “Young voters like us...