Public Education Was on the Ballot, and Pennsylvania Voters Sent a Clear Message: Finish the Job

budget, press releases, statewide news

Election results show voters support historic investments in K–12 education, including three straight years of adequacy funding and progress in closing Pennsylvania’ unconstitutional school funding gap. HARRISBURG — PA Schools Work, a statewide coalition of...

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

statewide news

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...

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

statewide news

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....

Pa. schools need an additional $4.6 billion to close education gaps

statewide news

A new analysis commissioned by advocates seeking to overhaul the state’s education funding system found that Pennsylvania’s public school children are being shortchanged by $4.6 billion. The conclusions depict widening gaps in education spending between affluent and...

SSD furloughs underscore state politics

statewide news

The Scranton School Board voted to furlough 218 employees, but the district was struggling well before the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated its financial distress. The state government has failed to fairly support the Scranton School District, and multiple analyses have...

As coronavirus closes schools, wealthier districts send laptops home with students. What about poorer districts?

regional news, southeast, statewide news, Uncategorized

As school districts from Lower Merion to Cherry Hill prepared to give students Chromebooks this week, Shaxi Ortiz picked up worksheets and reading materials from a Camden elementary school for her two daughters. “I only have one computer,” said Ortiz, as she left the...