Turzai Brief

…targets for each school district and a formula for distributing education funds in a manner that would help ensure that all students could meet state academic standards. [Id.]. Petitioners claim…

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PA budget press release 6-22-18

…funding formula in 2016. But only the new funding above 2015 levels is distributed using the formula, and so only a small fraction of the $6.1 billion basic education funding…

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wm-penn-mootness-brief-release

…high school are in bad condition… There are no librarians in any school in the Wilkes-Barre Area School District.” https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Opposition-To-Mootness-Application-File-Copy.pdf https://www.elc-pa.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Opposition-To-Mootness-Application-File-Copy.pdf As the filing explains, Act 35 of 2016 established…

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2018-08-07 Press Release

…rights of vulnerable children, including children living in poverty, children of color, children in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, children with disabilities, English language learners, LGBTQ students, and…

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The ABCs of school-funding formulas

…assigned for factors such as whether a student is poor or comes from a non-English-speaking household. A municipality’s ability to support its schools and the amount of total local effort…

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