From Education Voters of Pennsylvania (http://www.educationvoterspa.org/):
After a confused series of events that took place on Tuesday, the education savings account/DeVos school voucher bill, Senate Bill 2, remains in the Senate Education Committee, where lawmakers may vote on it in the future.
Initially, the Senate Ed Committee counted a 6-5 vote in favor of passing the bill. However, during the meeting they failed to count a proxy NO vote from Senator Tomlinson (R-Bucks). After Senator Tomlinson’s NO vote was counted later in the day, the result was 6-6. The Senate Education Committee decided to strike the vote from the record, so it is as if the vote never happened.
But the vote DID happen, so we know who voted for and against the ESA/DeVos voucher bill.
Since SB 2 is lurking in the Senate Education Committee and we expect that it will be back, it is very important to thank the lawmakers who supported public education.
These Senators voted AGAINST SB 2. If your senator is in the list below, please take a minute to thank him for his NO vote and his support of public education. A quick email, phone call, Twitter mention or FB post would be super.
Sen. James Brewster (D-Allegheny)
Harrisburg phone: 717-787-5580, email: brewster@pasenate.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/senatorbrewster/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SenatorBrewster
Sen. Andrew Dinniman (D-Chester)
Harrisburg phone: 717-787-5709, email: andy@pasenate.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SenatorAndyDinniman/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SenatorDinniman
Sen. Daniel Laughlin (R-Erie)
Harrisburg phone: 717-787-8927, email: dlaughlin@pasen.gov
Twitter: https://twitter.com/senatorlaughlin
Sen. Daylin Leach (D-Montgomery)
Harrisburg phone: 717-787-5544, email: senatorleach@pasenate.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/senatorleach/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/daylinleach
Sen. Robert Tomlinson (R-Bucks)
Harrisburg phone: 717-787-5072, email: rtomlinson@pasen.gov
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/senatortommytomlinson
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sentomlinson
Sen. Anthony Williams (D-Philadelphia)
Harrisburg phone: 717-787-5970, email: williams@pasenate.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/anthony.h.williams/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sentonywilliams
The senators in the list below voted IN FAVOR OF Senate Bill 2. If you live in the district of one of these senators and would like to work on showing him that his constituents don’t support bringing DeVos’s vouchers to PA, please reply to this email. I would be happy to help.
- Senators Eichelberger, (R-Blair)
- Senator Aument, (R-Lancaster)
- Senator Browne, (R-Lehigh)
- Senator DiSanto, (R-Dauphin)
- Senator Folmer, (R-Lebanon)
- Senator Scarnati, (R-Jefferson)
If your senator is not on the Senate Education Committee and you haven’t already sent an email asking him/her to oppose education savings account/DeVos voucher legislation, go to https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-lawmakers-from-bringing-a-new-generation-of-betsy-devos-super-vouchers-to-pennsylvania to send one now.
Some legislative leaders in Harrisburg are working hard to advance the agenda of the school privatization lobby. Thank you for helping send a crystal clear message to lawmakers that we expect them to support PUBLIC education, not Betsy DeVos’s school voucher schemes.
PS: The School Code (HB 178) passed out of the Senate last night and will now go to Governor Wolf’s desk. He can sign it, veto it or let it lapse into law. Click HERE to see how your state rep. voted. Click HERE to see how your state senator voted.
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