SEND AN EMAIL TO GOVERNOR SHAPIRO AND YOUR LEGISLATORS TO SAY THAT ALL KIDS DESERVE FULLY-FUNDED SCHOOLS!

Investing in public education excellence that allows students to succeed is the path to thriving communities, a stable economy, and a more competitive workforce. Every child, regardless of zip code, has a right to an excellent public education, which requires access to a full curriculum, art and music classes, counselors and librarians, technical opportunities, and a safe, clean, stable school environment.

Now, we have a ruling from the Commonwealth Court that emphatically agrees that our system of funding public education in the Commonwealth is broken. This ruling is a repudiation of a bare-bones system of public education that opponents of this lawsuit defended in court during the trial.

Pennsylvania’s House has listened to the needs of students and heard that the state is failing to meet its constitutional obligation to ensure that all students get a quality education, no matter where they live. They passed a budget that builds on Governor Shapiro's proposal to increase education funding, representing the kind of down payment needed to begin dealing with the deep inequities in the state’s school funding system.

Now,  final budget negotiations will begin. The PA Senate should embrace these new investments for Pennsylvania’s students and pass them as part of the final state budget.