STATEMENT: PA Schools Work Campaign on the Passage of HB 611, General Appropriations Bill for 2023-24 Fiscal Year

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STATEMENT: PA Schools Work Campaign on the Passage of HB 611, General Appropriations Bill for 2023-24 Fiscal Year Following the PA House passage of the 2023-24 fiscal year budget plan and the public statement from Governor Josh Shapiro that he will line-item veto...

STATEMENT: PA Schools Work on Positive State Revenue Figures and Making a Bold Investment in Our Public Schools

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HARRISBURG (April 26, 2022) — PA Schools Work, a non-partisan coalition of organizations representing the state’s urban, suburban and rural communities, issued the following statement following Governor Wolf’s remarks in an Associated Press story about better than...

Study: Pa. shorted poor school districts with federal COVID aid

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According to a recent analysis by the Keystone Research Center, area school districts with the most students of color, and the most living in poverty were shortchanged when federal COVID-19 funds were distributed. “The simplest way to say this is that the state...

LETTER TO GOV WOLF / PA LEGISLATORS: School Funding and the FY 2021-22 State Budget

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(December 22, 2020) – The PA Schools Work campaign sent the following letter to Governor Tom Wolf and members of the General Assembly following the passage of a second federal COVID stimulus bill and looking ahead to the FY 2021-22 state budget: Dear Governor...

Pennsylvania has left soaring special education costs to districts, report says

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The Education Law Center and PA Schools Work released a report showing how PA’s school districts have been forced to shoulder most of the escalating costs of educating students with disabilities due to meager increases in state aid, over the course of the last decade....