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Appropriations Hearing Focuses on Adequacy Funding, School Choice and Performance-based Proposals
Summary
Lawmakers and the Department of Education debated adequacy funding levels, proposals for performance-based higher-education funding, physical-plant grants, and options for students in low-performing schools, including OSTC and EITC programs.
Members of the House Appropriations Committee pressed the Pennsylvania Department of Education on Feb. 24 over how the governor's budget proposes to close (or not close) the state's education adequacy gap and how parents should help students in low-performing schools.
Representative Krupa asked what action the budget takes to help students "get out of failing schools and into schools that might serve them better." Secretary Rowe said the proposed budget focuses on directing funds to schools that need them most rather than removing students from low-performing settings. She explained school performance buckets follow federal ESSA definitions (comprehensive school improvement, additional targeted support and improvement, and targeted…
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