Undermining Educational Opportunity: Pennsylvania’s Unequal Restoration of School Funding
This policy brief examines the distribution of budget cuts per student by school district and finds large inequities. Specifically,...
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Gov. Wolf’s Education Budget Helps PA Schools Recover From Former Gov. Corbett’s Cuts
Note: This blog post has been updated since its initial posting.
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Commonwealth Foundation Doesn’t Understand What Pennsylvania’s Voters Do: We Need More Education Funding
While increasing public education funding rightly remains the top priority for Pennsylvanians after years of cuts, the Commonwealth Foundation...
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How the Achievement Gap Has Cost Pennsylvania Billions of Dollars
On May 6, researchers showed how the achievement gap and underlying inequality in Pennsylvania schools held back academic and...
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Senate Appropriations Committee: Part III of an Education Budget Preview
The Senate Appropriations Committee met on March 30 to discuss the proposed 2015-16 education budget with Acting Education Secretary...
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Senate Appropriations Committee: Part II of an Education Budget Preview
The Senate Appropriations Committee met on March 30 to discuss the proposed 2015-16 education budget with Acting Education Secretary...
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Senate Appropriations Committee: Part I of an Education Budget Preview
The Senate Appropriations Committee met on March 30 to discuss the proposed 2015-16 education budget with Acting Education Secretary...
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The State of School Funding Inequality in PA
The Education Trust, an independent national education policy organization, recently released a report on the nation’s growing funding inequalities...
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Penn Brief on PA School Funding Policy: Three Things You Need to Know
Last November, the University of Pennsylvania’s Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) released a policy brief on how...
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Pennsylvania Ranks Worst in Education Funding Inequality
The Washington Post ran a story on March 12 about unequal education funding between the haves and have-nots in...
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Gov. Wolf’s Cyber Charter Reform Plan Would Help Public School Students
Governor Wolf’s proposed 2015-16 state budget, unveiled last week, proposes to reform cyber charter school funding so that it...
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Do Standardized Tests Measure Up?
The House Committee on Education is considering two bills that could change how student performance is measured in public...
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