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Norristown schools and child-care providers cite gains from state funding and call for sustained support
Summary
Norristown Area School District leaders credited recent state investments with staffing and literacy gains; local childcare providers and domestic-violence service leaders asked the Appropriations Committee to preserve and expand funding for early-childhood programs, retention grants and survivor services.
Assistant Superintendent Dr. Yolanda Williams told the House Appropriations delegation that state funding has enabled the Norristown Area School District to add 140 staff positions over four years, reduce average elementary class sizes from about 27 to fewer than 22, and increase literacy proficiency among kindergartners from 14 percent (May 2021) to 54 percent (May 2024). “When public schools are adequately and equitably funded, great things happen for all children,” Williams said in remarks accompanying a superintendent video.
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