Education Voters of PA Needs Your Help

We are sharing this post from Education Voters of PA. There are plenty of ways to help and support a cause, this is 1.

Education Voters is a go-to resource for information, for advocacy, and for following what is happening in Harrisburg. And we have been a leading force in Pennsylvania’s education advocacy and policy community.

We helped put together the campaign and strategy for a fair funding formula. We have led on challenging poor charter school policy. We have fought to restore devastating education cuts. And, we are a leading voice in opposition to ill-conceived school privatization proposals that would undermine public education in Pennsylvania. Our reports are regularly cited in the news and by experts. Policymakers trust us as a resource for information.

And — we forget to ask you to chip in. Or we are working on other things and think I’ll get back to that when it isn’t so busy. It is always busy.   ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Right now, we are headed into an incredibly busy stretch.

Here is my to-do list. I am sharing this with you, along with my request for your support.

• Fight to help ensure districts with the fewest resources receive a “level up” supplement to begin to immediately address the needs of the state’s most underfunded districts, which have been ignored for too long.

• Make sure the federal dollars from the American Recovery Act are spent in ways that are student-centered and build stronger public schools. Read more about what the plan means for schools here.

• Fight to fix the charter school special education funding loophole that allows charters to reap a profit off of students with disabilities and spend/waste their excess special education funding on advertising, lavish CEO salaries, and more.

• Do extensive outreach on the PA School Funding lawsuit so more communities are able to follow its progress and pass resolutions in support of the lawsuit.

• Fight for the Nellie Bly scholarships to help reduce crushing student debt by ending Pennsylvania’s preposterous $200 million/year subsidy for wealthy race horse owners.

• Oppose school privatization and voucher schemes that funnel tax dollars into unaccountable private and religious schools.

• Conduct multiple training sessions for parents and community members who want great public schools for every child.

• Raise the money to keep this organization that I am very proud of going, asking for contributions and preparing several grant proposals.

Would you be willing to make a contribution to help, please? I’d really appreciate it! You can give a general contribution or support one of the projects we are working on.

* Your contribution will show up on your card or payment account as “Keystone Research Center” which is the fiscal sponsor for Education Voters.

Thank you for your continued support of public education. Together, we make a big difference for public school students in PA.

Best,

Susan Spicka, Executive Director, Education Voters of PA