Send a message to Senator Scott Martin, encouraging him to fight for the children of Lancaster and Berks Counties by insisting on a 2025-26 state budget that makes big investments in EVERY school in our community!

All our children deserve access to a strong foundational education that sets them up for success in career, college, or life.

Lawmakers are debating an education budget proposal budget proposal that would take important steps toward fixing Pennsylvania's unconstitutional school funding system and capping cyber charter reimbursement costs.

The budget proposal would bring $16 million in new state funds and savings to the community represented by state Senator Martin.

Send an email to Sen. Martin using the tool on the right to express your support for the 2025-26 funding proposal and encourage him to be a champion for the children, taxpayers, and educators in our state senate district by fighting for the plan and passing a state budget that puts our kids first!

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT SCHOOL FUNDING

Governor Shapiro's 2025-26 budget proposal takes important steps toward fixing Pennsylvania's unconstitutional school funding system and capping cyber charter reimbursement costs, which will provide huge relief for schools across the state, and especially for the eleven school districts in our 13^th Senatorial District, represented by Senator Scott Martin.

Sen. Martin's schools will receive $16 million more for the next school year if the governor's education funding plan is passed for 2025-26.

Under the funding proposal, all public schools in our community will receive additional state funding, with every school district benefiting from a Basic Education Funding increase and a statewide cyber charter tuition reimbursement cap of $8,000 per student, saving our local districts more than $4.7 million in cyber charter waste.

Most of Senator Martin’s school districts are inadequately funded (7/10), with a remaining adequacy shortfall of $82 million. The School District of Lancaster and Penn Manor have the largest adequacy shortfall ($28 million and $22 million respectively). Penn Manor has an adequacy shortfall of $3,400 per student, and three others – Lancaster, Conestoga Valley, and Governor Mifflin – have an overall adequacy shortfall of over or around $2,400 per student.

If enacted, the 2025-2026 school funding proposal would benefit every school district in this senate district greatly, with nearly $16 million in adequacy supplements, tax equity supplements, cyber savings, and BEF increases.

https://paschoolswork.org/school-district-data/

https://paschoolswork.org/the-basics/