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Tell Legislators to Maintain Support for Public Schools so All Students Have a Fair Opportunity to Learn

Take action today. Contact your local legislators to let them know fair and equitable school funding is helping students and districts that need the most help and that they should sustain that commitment.

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Let's talk about funding for PA kids and schools

• PA students are making significant progress in the classroom. We look to our state Senators to continue to make progress for Pennsylvania’s students by quickly enacting the budget bill that passed the state House with bipartisan support on March 23.
  
• We face a critical moment with the adoption of the 2010-11 state budget. Pennsylvania needs the state Senate to act, and to support the budget bill as adopted by the House so we don’t “turn back the clock” on the progress Pennsylvania has made in providing more fair and adequate state funding to schools and local communities.
   
• As a result of increased funding, thousands of Pennsylvania’s children are benefiting from programs aimed at increasing student achievement – the key to ensuring Pennsylvania’s future economic success. Districts are spending the new state money on reforms that research shows will achieve results for students – if those reforms are sustained. These include:
  • Tutoring and increased instructional time for over 560,000 students.
  • Advanced courses and more rigorous programs for almost 407,000 students.
  • Pre-K, full-day kindergarten, and smaller class sizes in the early grades for over 24,000 students.
    
• Governor Rendell and the General Assembly have made historic state investments in education over the past seven years, and the investments are showing real results. Our students have recently been recognized nationally for their improvement at all grade levels since 2002. But we are still a long way from having all our students reaching state and national proficiency standards.
  
• It is critical for the state Senate to support the budget bill in order to ensure that necessary investments in public education continue. Everyone understands the challenge of providing adequate funding for education in this difficult economic climate, but if the Senate doesn’t approve a budget that includes another $354 million in state funds for basic education (as the House bill did), Pennsylvania will fail to restore the state funding that was cut last year.
  
   

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Pennsylvania Schools are Making Progress

• National study shows big gains in Pennsylvania school achievement
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  A report released in August by the Center on Education Policy shows Pennsylvania students made gains in all academic categories from 2002-08. Pennsylvania was the only state in the nation to do so. The CEP report is consistent with the findings from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. The NAEP found that Pennsylvania is one of only six states to make significant gains in elementary school reading and math since 2005. Also, Pennsylvania was one of only 10 states to make significant gains in elementary school reading and math since 2003