From the Campaign for Fair Education Funding (http://fairfundingpa.org/): Add your voice to the growing number of Pennsylvanians who want lawmakers to fix the state’s broken school funding system, by sending a message to your state Senator and state Representative at … Continued
From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/): On Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Legislature voted to permanently adopt the fair funding formula that we supported along with our allies from the Campaign for Fair Education Funding. Governor Wolf has said he will sign … Continued
From Pre-K for PA (http://www.prekforpa.org/): Don’t forget to let your state legislators know you want to see stronger early learning investments in the fiscal 2016-17 state budget. If you represent a Pennsylvania-based organization, they need to hear from you now. … Continued
From the Campaign for Fair Education Funding (http://fairfundingpa.org/): Add your voice to the growing number of Pennsylvanians who want lawmakers to fix the state’s broken school funding system, by sending this message to the Governor, your state Senator, and state … Continued
From the Campaign for Fair Education Funding (http://fairfundingpa.org/): Statewide Group Applauds Passage of Fair Funding Formula; Calls for $400 million in 2016-’17 State Budget to be Driven Out to Schools through New Formula HARRISBURG (MAY 25, 2016) – The Campaign … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/05/25/report-demonstrates-that-greater-investment-well-distributed-raises-school-achievement/ Last week the Educational Testing Service published an important report, Mind the Gap: 20 Years of Progress and Retrenchment in School Funding, Staffing Resources, and Achievement Gaps, on why it is important for school districts to have … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/05/24/reading-about-education-in-the-press-consider-the-source-and-demand-documentation/ At the end of last week a friend forwarded a column that had appeared in his local paper. It is short, pithy, and readable. Unfortunately, although it begins with some facts that are perfectly accurate about the … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/our-societys-deplorable-lack-of-attention-to-the-needs-of-children-and-parents/ A quarter of a century ago, Richard Louv, in a popular book—Childhood’s Future—wrote: “Today’s children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow … Continued
Posted at https://janresseger.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/how-charters-destabilize-public-school-districts-let-us-count-the-ways/ Three recent press reports—from Nevada, Chicago, Illinois, and Massachusetts—document how expansion of charter schools is undermining the public schools that serve the majority of students including those with the greatest needs. The same theory of charter school … Continued