Established in 2006, the Keystone State Education Coalition is a growing grass roots, non-partisan public education advocacy group of several hundred locally elected, volunteer school board members and administrators from school districts throughout Pennsylvania. Our mission is to evaluate, discuss and inform our boards, district constituents and legislators on legislative issues of common interest and to facilitate active engagement in public education advocacy.
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"Students attending schools graded "F" would be in line for tuition vouchers to attend the public, private or parochial school of their choice."
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean a child from William Penn can take their voucher and go to a school in Radnor?
Schools aren't failing, students are failing in schools. The reasons are many - lack of early childhood education, living in fractured households, living under oppressive conditions of poverty, poor health, poor mental health care, hunger, etc. etc. This combined with lack of resources in the schools which rely on property taxes (so the poor stay poor) and schools being expected to make up for all of the needs that children come to school with, make for an almost impossible task. That said, many of our student are succeeding - even thriving - despite conditions imposed upon them. Why not offer just the neediest students vouchers? If we do that, those student who remain - the ones who are not failing - will ensure that our schools become "successful." Solutions such as vouchers and more charters mean we are simply "turning up the heat" and not fixing the "broken window" when it comes to public education.
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