Cyber charter reform passes the House 🔥🔥Gov. Shapiro promises no vouchers
What is happening with the state budget is complicated, so let’s start with some of the great news and substantial wins you helped make happen. Cyber charter reform passes out of the PA House in a historic vote and will move to the Senate!! Thanks to years of advocacy...
🚨🚨 DeVos voucher bill is moving in Harrisburg!
UPDATE: On Friday, June 30th, the Senate moved their "PASS Scholarship" DeVos voucher bill to the House Rules Committee, where it was SOUNDLY REJECTED in a party-line vote of 18-15. On June 30th, the PA Senate also passed a budget bill that contains a $100 million...
Cyber reform passes first hurdle, vouchers still on the table
It was a busy day in Harrisburg. The great news is that yesterday morning, on June 27th, the House Education Committee passed the fabulous House Bill 1422 by a vote along partisan lines of 12-9. This bill was years in the making and is the...
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For those of you interested in the Independence Law Center -- you absolutely MUST subscribe to the York Dispatch. Several York County school districts recently contracted with ILC. The Dispatch has been on it. Not just covering meetings, but filing RTKs, like this story shows. Dayspring Christian Academy has received more than $3.4 million tax dollars through the EITC/OSTC private school voucher programs since 2015. A new voucher program or additional funding for EITC/OSTC will = more tax $$ pouring into this discriminatory school. @GovernorShapiro If we have a school board that doesn't hold charter schools accountable, we get more charter school administrators and consultants getting paid tax $ for superintendent-like salaries to run just one or a few schools rather than hundreds. If we have a school board that doesn't hold charter schools accountable, we get more charter school mgmt orgs like Universal Companies with executives imprisoned for corruption and schools haphazardly closed mid year. If we have a school board that doesn't hold charter schools accountable, we get more situations like the Math, Civics, and Sciences Charter School closure...
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