Keystone State Education Coalition

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.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Vouchers a poor plan for poor schools

Vouchers a poor plan for poor schools
Lancaster Intelligencer Journal Jan. 26 2011
By JEFF HAWKES, Staff Writer
I welcome state Sen. Jeffrey Piccola's concern about schools where academic underperformance is chronic.

Not so welcome is the way he's misdiagnosing the cause of poor test scores and pushing school vouchers as the cure-all.

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/343301#ixzz1DkzX9aLm

Lancaster County school districts ranked by percentage of students in poverty and by 11th-grade PSSA math scores (Joel Lehman / Staff)

http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/5/343301/schoolsj26