Abbreviated: Pennsylvania’s Track Record on Private School Vouchers – Still No Accountability
After decades of chronic underfunding, the Commonwealth Court has ruled that Pennsylvania’s current K-12 education funding system is unconstitutional...
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RELEASE: Pennsylvania’s Career Pathway System Needs Support to Prepare Students for the Future
Pennsylvania’s career pathway system needs support to prepare students for the future Career and Technical Education (CTE) is a...
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Meeting the Demand for New Workers: Investing in Career-Related Learning for High School Students
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PBPC Supports Senator Vincent Hughes’s K-12 Funding Plan
Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center joined a press conference on Thursday in support of Senator Vincent Hughes’s plan to...
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Inequity and Inadequacy in K-12 Education Funding in Pennsylvania: Fiscal Year 2022-23 Update
This paper updates the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center’s analysis of the inadequacy and inequity in school funding to...
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STATEMENT: U.S. House Passage of ‘Build Back Better’ Advances Transformational Investments in U.S. Jobs, Families
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Kirstin Snow; snow@pennbpc.org; 215.510.9336 STATEMENT: U.S. House Passage of ‘Build Back Better’ Advances Transformational Investments...
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Economic, Racial, and Ethnic Inequality in Pennsylvania School Funding
It is well known that Pennsylvania’s K-12 schools are inadequately and inequitably funded. But the extent of the...
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A Quarter Century of Decline: School Funding In Pennsylvania 1993-94 to 2019-2020
After controlling for inflation in education costs, Pennsylvania’s public school districts are funded below the funding level they were...
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Uncovering Pennsylvania’s School Funding Disparity by Income
Relative to what they need, Pennsylvania’s poorest school districts receive 35% less funding than its richest. The incredible inequities...
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On the PA School Funding Lawsuit: Don’t Change the Subject
Originally published in the PA Capital-Star, August 11, 2021 In September, a group of students and school districts will...
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The PA Budget: A Disgrace and Dereliction of Duty
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2021 Contact: Adrienne Standley standley@pennbpc.org 717-805-8466 Statement by Marc Stier, Director, Pennsylvania Budget and...
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A Statement on HB 1776: Property School Tax Freeze Is a Wrong Move for PA
Pennsylvania, like every other state in the country, faces an unprecedented budget crisis at both the state and local...
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