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After decades of fierce and bitter debate, over the past three years, the Pennsylvania General Assembly adopted bipartisan funding distribution formulas for Special Education and Basic Education funding. As predicted, the adoption of fair funding formulas based on poverty, the ability to pay, home values and other economic criteria immediately revealed widespread discrimination. Both special educa
05/04/2024
The biggest sin in Pennsylvania education funding is the big walk-away from the 2016 BEF Law. Since the 2016 adoption of the BEF LAW, Pennsylvania has purposely underfunded 150 school districts by over $1.2 Billion every year. That's $9.6 Billion. Now in 2024, despite an Appellate Court Ruling on the unconstitutionality of Education Funding, every proposal walks-away from 8-years of this purposeful underfunding.
Yet, through Forever Hold Harmless, 350 school districts continued to get $1.2 Billion more than the BEF Law allocation, (a dozen districts got $10 million more, every year, unabashedly unabated). You can't make this up.
There should be No More Walking Away.
Because a group of us were concerned the Governor and General Assembly would kick the can, we started Www.SupportEquityFirst.org.
How sadly prescient?
The big walk-away in 2024, is $9.6 Billion that should have gone to the poorest and challenged students over the past 8 years.
The Forever Hold Harmless Coalition can't believe their good fortune, as the Governor's 2024 proposed budget, and the Seven Year Plan advocated by the education establishment Walks-Away from the $9.6 Billion owed to these challenged school districts.
Hard to believe.
Pottstown SD is walking away from over $96 Million owed to their residents from the 2016 BEF Law.
Reading SD is walking away from over $800 million.
Willingly Walking Away from $9.6 Billion owed to them by LAW.
Hard to believe...
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