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Lawsuit continues: Attorney visits Johnstown, calls state
school funding 'inadequate, inequitable and
unconstitutional'
Johnstown Tribune
Democrat By Ronald Fisher rfisher@tribdem.com June 18, 2019
A discussion surrounding
the topic of fair education funding was publicly held on Monday at
the Greater Johnstown School District Administration Building on Broad
Street. Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg, staff attorney for The Public Interest Law
Center in Philadelphia, served as the event’s speaker. He referred to
the education funding in Pennsylvania as “inadequate, inequitable and
unconstitutional.” “There is no goal of fully funding schools,”
said Urevick-Ackelsberg during his presentation. “For some of these school
districts it’s about ‘What can we afford to do this year?’ It’s not ‘What do
our kids need this year?’ “This is is not a Johnstown problem. This is not a
Philadelphia problem,” he said. “This is a Pennsylvania problem.” Greater
Johnstown is one of six schools districts that have brought a lawsuit against
the state for failing to give districts all the resources needed for
their students. The lawsuit was originally filed in November 2014, and
has since been kicked back and forth between the state Commonwealth Court
and the state Supreme Court. The Public Interest Law Center represents the
plaintiffs, which include the Pennsylvania Association of Rural and Small
Schools, NAACP Pennsylvania State Conference and six school districts: Greater
Johnstown, William Penn, Panther Valley, Lancaster, Wilkes-Barre Area and
Shenandoah Valley.
Lawmakers, Wolf need to fix Pennsylvania’s charter school
funding imbalance | Opinion
By Jay Himes Capital-Star Op-Ed
Contributor June 18,
2019
Jay Himes is
the executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of School Business
Officials.
The Pennsylvania
House of Representatives recently passed a package of charter school reform
bills without considering amendments addressing the most important charter
school reform issue—funding. While debate heated up between supporters and
opponents of the bills, no matter what side of the issue you’re on, we can all
agree that all students need access to a high quality education. Our concerns
are not whether charter schools are good or bad. Instead, our concern is how
current state policy funds charter schools and the financial impact that
current policy has on all of our school districts, taxpayers and students. The
entire burden of funding charter schools falls on school districts and local
taxpayers. Last year, 37 cents of every additional dollar raised in property
taxes went to pay the increasing cost of charter school tuition, which grew
by 10 percent. If the Legislature fails to recognize and resolve the
impact of mandated charter school costs on school districts and taxpayers,
public education funding will become even more serious a problem down the road.
In fact, for school districts across the state, this problem has already
started and is forcing them into real fiscal distress.
Guest Column: Where Pa. needs to put more money in
education
Delco Times Opinion
By Lawrence Feinberg Times Guest Columnist June 17, 2019
Lawrence A
Feinberg is an elected member of the Haverford School Board.
With the
Legislature’s recent passage, and Gov. Tom Wolf’s looming veto, of a bill that
nearly doubles tax credits for private and religious school by 90 percent, it
struck me that there might be value in revisiting our Pennsylvania constitution
for some context.
Article III,
Section 14 of the state’s foundational document reads like this: “The General
Assembly shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and
efficient system of public education to serve the needs of the Commonwealth.”
Then there’s
Article III, Section 15: “No money raised for the support of the public schools
of the Commonwealth shall be appropriated to or used for the support of any
sectarian school.”
And, for good
measure, Article VI, Section 3: “Senators, Representatives and all judicial,
State and county officers shall, before entering on the duties of their
respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation before
a person authorized to administer oaths. “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
I will support, obey and defend the Constitution of the United States and the
Constitution of this Commonwealth and that I will discharge the duties of my
office with fidelity.”
Using the
Pennsylvania General Assembly’s own Basic Education Funding Formula, it is estimated
that 52 percent of our public school students are attending school districts
that are underfunded. That’s more than 893,000 students on a “waiting list” –
waiting for the Legislature to fund that formula and fulfill its constitutional
obligation to “provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and
efficient system of public education”.
State Sen.
Anthony Williams, D-Philadelphia, has been a proponent of school choice
proposals, but said he couldn’t support this (HB800) legislation. The state’s
existing Educational Improvement Tax Credits were intended to help “lift
children out of poverty,” Williams said. Changing the income levels to benefit
children from more well-off families is intolerable, he said.
“$95,000 is an
insult,” Williams said on the Senate floor.
Tax credit expansion heads to Gov. Wolf
Sunbury Daily Item By
John Finnerty jfinnerty@cnhi.com Jun 12, 2019
HARRISBURG – A tax
credit program benefiting donors who give toward scholarships for private
school tuition would be boosted by $100 million under legislation heading to
Gov. Tom Wolf.
The change would
almost double the amount of tax credits available through the Educational
Improvement Tax Credit – from $110 million to $210 million. The state Senate
approved the measure by a 28-21 straight party vote Tuesday with all of the
chamber’s Republicans supporting the measure and all the Democrats opposing it.
Gov. Tom Wolf has not indicated whether he will sign it, but he made clear in comments
to reporters Tuesday morning that he is skeptical of the plan, including a
provision within it that provides automatic increases in the amount designated
for Educational Improvement Tax Credits each year.
“I have done
everything in my power and I’ve worked across the aisle to get more money for
public education,” Wolf said. “This seems to me, again, I’ll take a look
at it, this seems to me to be at odds with that need of a government and a
democracy like ours to support broad-based, accessible, public education.” Republican
supporters of the plan, including Senate Majority Leader Jacob Corman,
R-Centre, said the proposal is intended to make school choice more affordable
to more people. “I choose to send my kids to public school,” Corman said.
“But we don’t have just one option in Pennsylvania.” Corman said that if the
automatic increases prove to be a problem, lawmakers can also change the law in
future years to get rid of it. The legislation increases the maximum annual
household income for scholarship recipients from $85,000 to $95,000. Democrats
in the Senate pointed at the proposed automatic increases along with the higher
income eligibility limit in refusing to support the plan.
U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey wades into fight over $100M in
business tax breaks for private schools in Pennsylvania
Morning Call By MARC
LEVY | ASSOCIATED PRESS | JUN 17, 2019 | 6:40 PM
U.S. Sen. Pat
Toomey waded into a budget fight in Pennsylvania on Monday over substantially
expanding state taxpayer support for private and religious schools that is stoking
pushback from public school advocates. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf is expected to
veto the measure, but Toomey, a Republican, wrote to the governor to urge him
to sign it and make the case for nearly doubling a tax credit program,
increasing it by $100 million to $210 million a year. Approximately 40,000
children are on a waiting list for the taxpayer-funded scholarship aid to help
pay their tuition, Toomey wrote. “The educational futures of Pennsylvania
children should not be jeopardized by political games or partisan politics,”
Toomey wrote. “I urge you to sign this legislation.” Under the 18-year-old
Educational Improvement Tax Credit program, corporations and business people
can effectively direct tens of millions in tax dollars to favored private and
religious schools. The existing $110 million program subsidizes those donations
with a tax credit of up to 90%, meaning a donation of $100,000 may cost the
donor $10,000.
Paul Muschick on state budget: Gov. Wolf should use new
bargaining chip to get severance tax
By PAUL MUSCHICK | THE MORNING CALL | JUN 17, 2019 | 7:00 AM
State budget
negotiations are wrapping up, and stubborn lawmakers still are refusing to
consider sensible proposals that would help taxpayers. Here’s an idea to get
their attention. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf has been unable to convince the
Republican-controlled Legislature to impose a severance tax on natural gas
drillers or to force municipalities to pay for state police coverage. He was
handed a bargaining chip recently — and he should hold on to it down the
homestretch to make a deal. Republican lawmakers want Wolf to sign legislation
to nearly double a tax credit program that funds scholarships to private and
religious schools. The Education
Improvement Tax Credit would
be raised from $110 million to $210 million annually, with the potential for
the cap to rise even more in future years. Businesses get tax credits when they
donate for the scholarships. The result is that tax money gets diverted to fund
private education. Wolf rightfully rejects the idea. He said last week he
would veto
the legislation, House Bill
800, which passed the state House and Senate but not by veto-proof margins. “This
seems to me to be at odds with that need of a government and a democracy like
ours to support broad-based, accessible, public education,” Wolf told
reporters.
EITC should be expanded to help more PA kids get the
education they need to succeed | PennLive Editorial
By PennLive Editorial Board Updated Jun 17, 8:43 PM; Posted Jun 17, 5:48 PM
We’re about putting
kids first. Anything that will make it easier for parents to put their kids in
the rights schools for their particular needs is worthy of support. The bill
now awaiting Gov. Tom Wolf’s signature would increase funding for the EITC
program, which provides tax incentives to businesses to support scholarships in
private schools. EITC has proven to be a popular and effective way to encourage
businesses to support education and to provide scholarships for needy students
in private institutions. The theory is good . . . as many children need special
accommodations and nurturing that may not be easily available in their assigned
neighborhood public schools. It is true, EITC allows parents to opt out of
public education and choose whatever works best for their children and for
their pocketbooks. But this is America, and we are all about freedom and
choice. If the public schools are broken, don’t work, or the family simply
needs something different, they should be able to choose where their kids go to
school. And the tax dollars allocated to their education should follow them.
Pennsylvania has 500 school districts. What’s stopping
consolidations?
PA Capital Star By Elizabeth Hardison June 18, 2019
Former state Sen.
John Wozniak hasn’t served in the General Assembly since 2016. But lawmakers
still borrow a trademark phrase from the Cambria County Democrat, who was a
longtime proponent of school district consolidation. “I know how to kill a
werewolf. I know how to kill a vampire. But I don’t know how to kill a school
mascot,” Wozniak used to say. The difficulty of school district consolidation
was the topic of a bipartisan hearing Monday held by the Senate’s Majority and
Minority Policy committees, where senators and education experts discussed the
possibility of reducing the number of public school districts across the state.
Legislatures in Maine and Arkansas have tried to force district consolidations
in recent years. But the discussion in Pennsylvania’s Capitol on Monday doesn’t
mean the same thing is on the way in the Keystone State, said Minority
Chairwoman Sen. Lisa Boscola, D-Northampton. “We recognize this is a very
complicated, difficult issue, but we must cross this bridge at least to find
out if there is a better way to do this,” Boscola said. “This is merely a
discussion aimed at identifying, clarifying, and understanding the advantages and
disadvantages and challenges that come with school consolidation.”
SB200: Sappey's trauma-informed education bill advances
Pottstown Mercury
by MediaNews Group Jun 17, 2019 Updated 14 hrs ago
WEST
CHESTER—Legislation that state Reps. Christina Sappey, D-Chester, and prime
co-sponsor Ryan Mackenzie, R-Lehigh/Berks, introduced with state Sens. Vincent
Hughes, D-Philadelphia/Montgomery, and Patrick Browne, R-Lehigh, would
implement trauma-informed approaches to education. These initiatives have
received overwhelming support from both parties, as well as state and national
organizations. Both bills would instill trauma-informed focused policies,
procedures and practices inside the classroom, such as requiring teachers and
staff in schools to receive training on recognizing the signs of childhood
trauma and methods on helping these students overcome obstacles they face in
school. S.B. 200 unanimously passed the Senate Education and Appropriations
committees on June 12 and is positioned to move to the full Senate next week,
followed by the House Education Committee before the legislature adjourns for
the summer. “I’m glad to see there’s bipartisan support for this important
legislation from both chambers. We have a real opportunity to change lives, and
it’s entirely possible to begin immediately,” Sappey said. “We need empathetic,
trauma-informed approaches in our schools to ensure every student has a chance
to succeed, regardless of adverse childhood experiences.”
Ortitay proposes change in disbursement of school safety
money
Observer-Reporter Jun
15, 2019
State Rep. Jason
Ortitay, R-Cecil, has introduced legislation to change the way funds allocated
under the $60 million school safety and security block grant program are
disbursed. The program, created as part of Act 44 of 2018, a comprehensive
school safety law, gave each school district that applied $25,000 for safety
initiatives, including school safety assessments, security equipment, training,
and hiring school resource officers. The remaining portion of the money was
awarded through competitive grants by the School Safety and Security Committee
within the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. “As a member of
the School Safety and Security Committee, I saw firsthand the flaws of awarding
part of this funding through a competitive application process,” Ortitay said.
“Larger and more affluent school districts had resources to create better
applications. School districts should not be competing against each other for
this type of money. In addition, it is the General Assembly’s responsibility to
decide where funding should be allocated. My legislation is a much fairer way
to disburse the money so that it will benefit the most people.”House Bill 1631
would allocate $25,000 to every school district, career and technical school,
intermediate unit, private residential rehabilitative institution and
brick-and-mortar charter school. To receive the money, a school entity would complete
a Pennsylvania Department of Education-created application requesting funding
to address safety and security in one of 22 categories outlined in the bill.
After the $25,000 is disbursed, additional money available would be awarded to
public school districts based upon a formula that considers a number of factors
including average daily attendance. In addition, the program would still
include $10 million for grants to community violence prevention programs.
The legislation was
referred to the House Education Committee for its consideration.
‘Capable of Greatness’
As
Strawberry Mansion works to reinvent itself, its students show they’re strong
enough to beat the odds.
Inquirer by Kristen A. Graham, Updated: June 18, 2019- 5:00 AM
At first, that May
Friday felt like a magic night, all dim lights and loud thumping bass in a
South Philadelphia ballroom, the high school seniors transformed in their
floor-sweeping dresses and stylish suits. When Nykia McClendon arrived at
Strawberry Mansion High School’s prom, strong and shining in a gold gown, the
energy shifted. People crowded around the teenager, hugging her wordlessly. A
treasured rite of passage became, for a few moments, a vigil. Less than 24
hours before, McClendon’s mother had been gunned down, caught in a deadly
crossfire while she walked home from a Chinese restaurant in their North
Philadelphia neighborhood, carrying takeout for her granddaughter. No one was
arrested. Deborra “Tashawn” McClendon had been counting the days until her
daughter’s prom. Nykia and her family decided she should still attend.
At Mansion, the
staff and students who were close to Nykia and her sister Michelle, a
sophomore, felt lost as they tried to support the sisters. It was an unsettling
day. “No one knows whether to be happy or sad,” said Ameera Sullivan, Mansion’s
counselor. The shooting and its aftermath reflected Mansion’s tough realities.
Unlike any in Philadelphia, the high school has been fighting not just to
survive but to reinvent itself, to somehow be an educational refuge in a
neighborhood that logs more homicides than any other in the city.
“The biggest
cost-drivers come as little surprise. The largest increase is in salaries –
$4.6 million more than last year. PSERS – or pension payments – check in at
about $37.4 million, which is an increase of roughly 7.1% from 2018-2019's
budget. The third largest increase is in charter school payments, which will
cost BASD about $30.75 million in the new budget, which is $992,747 more than
last year or a 3.3% hike. These two items alone constitute $68.1 million in
spending and is an increase from the current budget of about $1.2 million.”
BASD approves budget without tax increase for the first
time in years
WFMZ By: Stephen Althouse Posted: Jun 17, 2019 09:48 PM EDT
BETHLEHEM, Pa. -
The Bethlehem Area School District's final 2019-2020 budget was approved by
directors during a special meeting Monday night at the administration building.
The budget contains no tax increases on property owners. The vote was 7-1 with
Director Eugene McKeon dissenting. The news should be received well by
taxpayers who have been saddled with tax increases each of the last 20 plus
years. Last year's budget, for example, included a 2.5% tax increase. The
$291.2 million spending plan did contain a $1.6 million shortfall, but
administrators opted to use fund balance capital to close the gap instead of
seeking more money from property owners. The spending plan represents a 3.5%
growth in overall district spending compared to last year – $291.2 to $281.3
million. "The primary costs drivers impacting the deficit include several
high-dollar mandated costs or programs," according to BASD documents
accompanying the bill. "… The impact of the these few areas presents a very
difficult challenge in maintaining a fiscally conservative operational
approach, while still providing exciting, creating and inspiriting educational
opportunities for our students."
Judge moves to put Harrisburg City School District under
state control
PA Capital Star By Elizabeth Hardison June 17, 2019
A Dauphin County
judge announced Monday morning that he would appoint a receiver to take control
of the Harrisburg City School District, effectively putting the troubled school
system under state control. Judge William Tully is expected to sign the order
appointing a receiver on Monday. He announced his decision after a brief
hearing in his chambers on Monday morning, when district solicitor James
Ellison said he would not contest the petition brought by Department of
Education Secretary Pedro Rivera, PennLive reports. Ellison’s announcement came as a surprise twist in the district’s legal
strategy. Late last week, he filed a response denying all charges that Rivera
brought in his petition, namely that the district had failed to comply with the
long-term recovery plan it adopted jointly with the state in 2013.
Judge’s order makes it official: Harrisburg schools lose
local control for 3 years
By Christine Vendel |
cvendel@pennlive.com Updated Jun
17, 5:52 PM; Posted Jun 17, 5:42 PM
Starting
immediately, and for the next three years, a receiver will run the Harrisburg
School District, according to Judge William T. Tully’s official written order
filed late Monday. Tully
granted the state’s petition to appoint a receiver Monday morning in a hearing that was cut short after the school district withdrew
its opposition. School Solicitor James Ellison indicated in a response last
week that he intended to fight the petition by
trying to force the judge to “transfer all students to schools under external
management,” if the
judge granted receivership. But he withdrew that fiery response Monday and the
hearing was over in a few minutes instead of stretching into two days as
originally planned. The judge filed a written order late Monday afternoon
outlining how the district had failed to improve academic performance, student
absenteeism and graduation rates as expected in the district’s recovery plan.
He also confirmed that Janet Samuels, the former chief recovery officer for the
district, would become the receiver.
“School Board President Rachel Mitchell on
June 5 went to Harrisburg to advocate for more funding for the district. Depending
on the source, the district is underfunded by $15 to $19 million.”
Upper Darby to weigh tax increase for final school budget
Delco Times By Kevin Tustin
ktustin@21st-centurymedia.comJune 18, 2019
UPPER DARBY — The
Upper Darby School Board will have its options as to how much to raise taxes
for the 2019-20 school year before it votes on a final budget Tuesday night. The
board will hear the financial implications of raising taxes 1.9 or 2.3 percent,
including how much of the fund balance will be used to further supplement the
budget, during its finance and operations committee meeting Tuesday night.
These tax increase options were suggested by a number of board members at their
June 4 regular business meeting. A proposed final budget was adopted last month
with a 3 percent tax increase that would generate another $3 million in
additional property tax revenue for the $213.1 million budget. Over $5.5
million in fund balance was assigned to balance that proposed final budget.
More fund balance is expected to be used if the tax increase drops below 3
percent. The district is looking at an over $8 million shortfall in its budget.
What isn’t shifting just yet is the amount of basic and special education funding
from the state. Chief Financial Officer Patrick Grant said Monday those funding
streams have not changed, but the state has not passed a budget yet. The amount
the state sends to the district (for the better) will not be known as the
General Assembly continues to work on a $34 billion budget.
No program or staffing cuts, slight tax increase in
Riverview School District budget
Trib Live by MICHAEL DIVITTORIO | Monday, June 17, 2019 10:55 p.m.
Oakmont and Verona
property owners will pay a little more in real estate taxes next year to help
keep Riverview School District programs status quo. Board members voted 5-3
Monday night to adopt their 2019-20 budget and tax ordinance. Next school
year’s millage rate was set at 23.2719 mills, a jump of 0.2646-mill or about
1.16 percent. A property owner with the average assessed value of $167,000
would pay about $49 more in taxes next year. District Business Manager Tammy
Good said the rate hike is projected to net about $160,000 in additional
revenue for Riverview. Revenues were projected around $23.8 million and
expenses at $24.4 million, which includes a $600,000 transfer to the capital
reserve fund for building and maintenance projects. Budget documents also
indicate $130,000 will be pulled from budgetary reserve, and an administrative
position will be lost through attrition.
Allegheny Valley passes 2019-20 budget with no tax
increase
Trib Live by EMILY BALSER | Monday, June 17, 2019 9:09 p.m.
The Allegheny
Valley School Board on Monday approved the district’s $23 million final budget
for next school year without a tax increase. The tax rate will remain the same
at 20.8377 mills. The average homeowner will continue to pay about $1,530 in
Springdale Township, $1,682 in Springdale Borough, $1,905 in Harmar and $2,163
in Cheswick. The budget was approved in an 8-0 vote. Board member Shawn Whelan
was absent. District officials previously said expenses increased by about 1%,
mostly due to pension contributions. The district also approved the 2019
homestead and farmstead exclusion, which reduces property taxes for qualified
properties by about $135.
How Teach for America Evolved Into an Arm of the Charter
School Movement
Documents
obtained by ProPublica show that the Walton foundation, a staunch supporter of
school choice and Teach for America’s largest private funder, was paying $4,000
for every teacher placed in a traditional public school — and $6,000 for every
one placed in a charter school.
ProPublica by Annie Waldman June 18, 5 a.m. EDT
When the Walton
Family Foundation announced in 2013 that it was donating $20 million to Teach
For America to recruit and train nearly 4,000 teachers for low-income schools,
its press release did not reveal the unusual terms for the grant. Documents obtained
by ProPublica show that the foundation, a staunch supporterof school choice and Teach For America’s largest private funder, was paying $4,000 for every teacher placed in a
traditional public school — and $6,000 for every one placed in a charter
school. The two-year grant was directed at nine cities where charter schools were sprouting
up, including New Orleans; Memphis, Tennessee; and Los Angeles. The gift’s
purpose was far removed from Teach For America’s original mission of
alleviating teacher shortages in traditional public schools. It was intended to “generate a
longer-term leadership pipeline that advances the education movement, providing
a source of talent for policy, advocacy and politics, as well as quality
schools and new entrepreneurial ventures,” according to internal grant
documents. The incentives corresponded to a shift in Teach For America’s
direction. Although only 7% of students go to charter schools, Teach For America sent almost 40% of its 6,736
teachers to them in 2018 — up from 34% in 2015 and 13% in 2008. In some large cities, charter schools employ the majority
of TFA teachers: 54% in Houston, 58% in San Antonio and at least 70% in Los
Angeles.
Charter Schools Will Always Waste Money Because They
Duplicate Services
Gadfly on the Wall
Blog by Steven Singer June 15, 2019
You can’t save
money buying more of what you already have.
Constructing two
fire departments serving the same community will never be as cheap as having
one. Empowering two police departments to patrol the same neighborhoods will
never be as economical as one. Building two roads parallel to each other that
go to exactly the same places will never be as cost effective as one. This
isn’t exactly rocket science. In fact, it’s an axiom of efficiency and sound
financial planning. It’s more practical
and productive to create one robust service instead of two redundant ones. However, when it comes to education, a lot of so-called fiscal
conservatives will try to convince us that we should erect two separate school
systems – a public one and a privatized one. The duplicate may be a voucher
system where
we use public tax dollars to fund private and parochial schools. It may be charter
schools where
public money is used to finance systems run by private organizations. Or it may be some
combination of the two.
The deadline to
submit a cover letter, resume and application is July 19,
2019.
Become a 2019-2020 PSBA Advocacy Ambassador
PSBA is seeking
applications for two open Advocacy Ambassador positions. Candidates
should have experience in day-to-day functions of a school district,
on the school board, or in a school leadership position. The purpose of the
PSBA Advocacy Ambassador program is to facilitate the education and engagement
of local school directors and public education stakeholders through the
advocacy leadership of the ambassadors. Each Advocacy Ambassador will
be responsible for assisting PSBA in achieving its advocacy goals. To
achieve their mission, ambassadors will be kept up to date on current
legislation and PSBA positions on legislation. The current open
positions will cover PSBA Sections 3 and 4, and
Section 7.
PSBA Advocacy
Ambassadors are independent contractors representing PSBA and serve
as liaisons between PSBA and their local elected officials. Advocacy
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the purpose of engaging the designated members to be active and committed
grassroots advocates for PSBA’s legislative priorities.
PSBA: Nominations for The Allwein Society are open!
This award program
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behalf of public schools & students. Nominations are accepted year-round
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EPLC is accepting
applications for the 2019-20 PA Education Policy Fellowship Program
Education Policy & Leadership Center
PA's premier education policy leadership program for education, policy
& community leaders with 582 alumni since 1999. Application with program
schedule & agenda are at http://www.eplc.org
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