Calls for more funding in Pennsylvania public schools are getting louder, as officials, teachers, staff and union members rally against school vouchers.
School funding rallies in two communities Friday call for better funding of the Commonwealth’s public schools while attacking a controversial funding proposal known as school vouchers.The rally, in the shadow of Philadelphia City Hall, had two goals: To push for legislative approval of Governor Shapiro’s $1.1 billion funding package for the Commonwealth’s public schools, and to hammer school vouchers, offering public dollars to private schools.Pa.
But, the target was school vouchers.State Representative Ismail Smith-Wade-El, Democrat of Lancaster County said, "I’m here to say no to Pa.’s richest people deciding they would rather have a few more of our tax dollars in their pockets than our kids be alive."In Norristown, a similar message as superintendents of schools, students and public-school advocates argued approval of Shapiro’s budget means an infusion of $30 million in Montgomery County schools by the fall.
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