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Friday June 24, 2011
Take Action To Stop SB1 - Another Attack On Public Education!
The Pennsylvania Senate is about to vote on a bill that will lower the quality of public education and raise your property taxes. It’s called SB1, and it will cost Pennsylvania taxpayers up to $4.5 billion.
Senate leadership is trying to ram this through TODAY! Please take action NOW before they vote on this outrageous legislation.
- SB 1 will increase the burden placed on public education. Because private schools can pick and chose who they admit, children left in our public schools will be those with greatest needs for educational and support services. SB 1 would drain financial resources from public education while increasing the challenges they face in meeting the needs of all children.
- SB 1 has no accountability. SB 1 would send taxpayer dollars to private school operators with no requirement that they do a good job teaching kids. Even worse, there are numerous reports of financial fraud and other scandals in private school operations.
- SB 1 is unconstitutional. Article III, Section 15 of the PA Constitution states: “No money raised for the support of the public schools of the Commonwealth shall be appropriated or used for the support of any sectarian school.”
- SB 1 is a huge unfunded liability for taxpayers. Cost estimates for SB 1 are based on just 10% of low-income families. Dr. Woodrow Sites of the PA Association of Rural and Small Schools testified that the real price tag could be up tp $4.5 billion a year.
Take action now! Click here to tell your State Senator to vote NO on SB 1.
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