Reform Special Education Funding
Newspapers throughout the state have, in addition to providing news coverage of the new funding report, written editorials in support of the measure to reform special education funding.
EDITORIALS
- Reading Eagle: Changes to special ed funding needed
- Beaver County Times: It’s about time
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Special effort: The state is not finished on education funding
- Beaver County Times: Huge gap: State and federal governments fall short on special ed funding
OP-EDS
- York Dispatch: Pa. students with disabilities deserve better
- York Daily Record: Education bill needed
- Harrisburg Patriot-News: Status quo won’t work on Pennsylvania special ed funding
- Pocono Record: Disabled kids face a school funding imbalance
- York Daily Record: All kids count: Fairly fund special education
- Centre Daily Times: Support funding to educate children with disabilities
NEWS COVERAGE
- York Dispatch: Special ed funding change passes in PA House
- Lancaster Intelligencer Journal: Bill alters special-ed funding
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Administrators hope bill will bring fairness to special education
- The York Dispatch: Special ed bill could boost funds for York City schools
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Sto-Rox board wants poor districts to make political noise
- Lancaster Intelligencer Journal: State of Pennsylvania’s schools a hot topic
- Lancaster Intelligencer Journal: School funding issues remain. Study: Special-ed funding not adequate
- Pennsylvania Legislative Services: Special Education coalition releases “costing-out” study
- Philadelphia Inquirer: Study: Pa. short on special-ed funding
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Most schools in Pa. underfund special education
- Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: State aid levels leave school districts scrambling to fund special ed
- Scranton Times-Tribune: Study finds NEPA schools short of special-ed funds
- Somerset Daily American: Study: Schools fall short on special education funding
- Standard-Speaker: Study: Two local schools short on special ed funding
- Philadelphia Public School Notebook: 35 advocacy groups ask legislators to fix special education funding
VOICES OF SUPPORT
2010 video from Senate hearing on special education reform legislation
PAGES
SPECIAL EDUCATION FUNDING
Q&A on Special Education Funding Reform
The Bill: HB 2
Read the full report: Costing-out Special Education Funding
Read the executive summary: Costing-out Study: Executive Summary
View statewide data report:
Pa. Data on Special EducationView a presentation on:HB 704
DRAFT: State Survey on Special Education Funding Formulas
SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS
There are approximately 40 organizations supporting special education funding reforms, including:
The full list of supporting organizations is on the About page.
CONTACTS
Education Law Center
Brett Schaeffer
bschaeffer@elc-pa.orgThe Arc of Pennsylvania
Pam Klipa
pklipa@thearcpa.orgDisability Rights Network of PA
Sallie Lynagh
slynagh@drnpa.orgCATEGORIES
- Action Items (31)
- Media (19)
- News (50)
- Organizing (7)
TAGS
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