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Support Equal Education Funding in Pennsylvania

May 12, 2014
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textbook, textbook funding, PA Catholics, Catholic Network Pennsylvania

For many years, the annual state budget for textbooks and other instructional materials for non-public schools had increased at the same rate as the increase in public school subsidies.  Whether the students attend public or nonpublic schools, their parents are taxpayers, so treating all students equitably in regards to textbooks makes sense. While public schools received exponentially more funding from the state and federal government via our tax dollars, textbooks are a basic need that are given to the students, not the schools.

However, in recent years, the public school students received an increase when the non-public students did not.  In fact, even though public school enrollment has decreased for the last five years, the public school subsidy has been increased for 4 out of those 5 years. Nonpublic schools have received either a decrease or no increase for 5 straight years, while the cost of providing each textbook to the students has continued to increase.

Education of our students is vital to the future success of our state. Investing today in textbooks will help shape community leaders for years to come, and those textbooks should be distributed equitably to all of the students in the Commonwealth.

Please send a message TODAY to your legislators in support of equal textbook funding.

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