Urge Governor Wolf and the General Assembly to Increase School Funding

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 Representative at http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/51238/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=18293.

Students from across Pennsylvania continue to miss out on the opportunity to receive an education that prepares them to successfully compete in the world beyond high school. In the last six years, academic and extracurricular programs have been slashed, classroom sizes have ballooned, and the number of teachers and support staff have been greatly reduced.

The state took a strong first step by enacting a fair school funding formula to distribute education dollars based on need rather than politics, but the school funding crisis is not over even though the 2015-16 budget passed and the fair funding formula was adopted for this year.

Pennsylvania must sustain the fair funding formula and provide sufficient resources so that all students – no matter where they live – can succeed in school and meet the state’s academic standards.

If the state continues to limit funding increases to the level approved in this year’s budget, infants in their cribs today will have graduated from high school by the time Pennsylvania achieves a fully-funded and fair public school funding system!

Please work together to pass a budget for 2016-17 that increases funding for public schools by at least $400 million, driven out through the new formula, and find the revenues needed to support investments in Pennsylvania’s students that will pay dividends for all Pennsylvanians in the years to come.