Tell Governor Shapiro and PA Lawmakers to reject “Lifeline Scholarship” vouchers and fund public schools!
Senate Republicans in Harrisburg just announced that implementing a new school voucher program is their top priority in the 2023-2024 state budget. They are fast tracking a “Lifeline Scholarship” bill (Senate Bill 795) that would create a brand new voucher program IN...
Ask me how cyber charters waste property taxes!
We spent Tuesday in the Harrisburg Capitol talking to a lot of people about what we learned from Right to Know requests for cyber charter school expenditures on advertising and parties. Click HERE for a summary of what we learned. Common responses were disbelief and...
Right to Know requests reveal $16.8 million in cyber charter advertising in 2021-2022.
Right to Know requests reveal $16.8 million in cyber charter advertising in 2021-2022. CYBERS WASTED SCHOOL PROPERTY TAX DOLLARS ON BUS WRAPS, MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL TICKETS, TV AND RADIO ADS, BILLBOARDS, HIGH-END HOODIES, AND MUCH, MUCH, MORE! Tell your state...
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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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