…with disabilities. The December 2013 report includes that testimony as well as recommendations for adopting a new formula for distributing state funding for special education. Read the full report: https://elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/SpecialEducationFundingCommissionReport_12_11_13.pdf…
MoreStrong public schools are important for creating a successful future for both individuals and whole communities. Formula proposals or state budgets affecting education funding should be evaluated based on the…
More…existing fair funding formula. “To chart a new course for the future, the governor and legislature must commit to substantial, sustained multiyear increases in basic education funding to close persistent…
MoreThe Special Education Funding Commission of the Pennsylvania legislature reconvened August 27, 2019, for the first time in nearly six years to examine the impact of the 2014 funding formula…
More…that the lawsuit was rendered moot by the state’s adoption of a funding formula in 2016. Read more about the case here. ### The Education Law Center-PA (ELC) is a…
More…comes as Gov. Wolf has proposed millions more dollars to school districts across the state, and a bipartisan commission has been holding hearings to develop an education-funding formula, which Pennsylvania…
More…financing public schools through an inequitable formula. The current system creates an imbalance of financing between poor and wealthy districts and jeopardizes the civil rights of disadvantaged students, the alliance…
More…enacted in this year’s budget. The money would be distributed using the fair funding formula created and adopted by the bipartisan Basic Education Funding Commission in June 2015. Statements from…
More…almost every newsletter). Release: ELC Supports Governor’s Proposal to Restore Funding Cuts. 3-4-2015. February 2015 Newsletter: CFEF Releases Formula Proposal. Release: ELC Kicks Off New School Funding Campaign. 10-6-2014. October…
More…thorough and efficient system of public education.” Any new formula for public education funding, must include a much-needed rational fix to the broken special education funding calculation for charter schools….
More…book Listing on website 4 tickets to ELC event Education Sponsor – $1,000 Half page ad in ELC event program book Listing/link on website 8…
More…knowledgeable, and engaged citizens. 3 Ensure the adoption of a funding formula that uses accurate school district and community data and includes weights and factors including poverty, English proficiency, disability,…
More…for the MCSO. • Perpetuating the perverse financial incentives to underserve students with severe disabilities, by exempting charter schools from the rational and fair special education funding formula used by…
More…is among the lowest in the country. The proposed compromise budget would begin to fund a bipartisan funding formula designed to address these historic inequities and entrenched funding inadequacies. It…
More…million in new basic education money to help restore school funding cuts and that begins to implement a new funding formula that rationally and fairly distributes education dollars. Only then…
More…critical programs slashed in response to drastic state funding cuts. “In the absence of an adequately funded formula that accounts for stranded costs to districts due to charter expansion –…
More…laws into place that aren’t going to be constitutionally challenged.” The Education Law Center agreed. “In the absence of an adequately funded formula that accounts for stranded costs to districts…
More…adoption of a fair funding formula to equitably distribute new educational investments to the districts and students who need help the most. We will continue to work with the Governor…
More…in enrolling and graduating from higher education and establishing formula grants to states based on a state’s share of foster youth and homeless youth among all 50 states and the…
More…While the state has implemented a new funding formula and provided small increases in education funding since the case was filed three years ago, these measures have done little to…
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