Penn ACTION and CLEAR lead Democrats and Republicans to Stand Together In Support of FMAP, Education Funding
Just three hours before the House of Representatives voted to extend FMAP funding and provide additional federal funds for education, a bi-partisan group of state legislators from the Greater Philadelphia suburbs stood together on the steps of the Delaware County Courthouse in Media with representatives of labor unions and social service providers to urge Congress to extend funding of the FMAP program through the end of June 2011. They were joined by a crowed of more than fifty people. Republican and Democratic State Senators including Edwin Erickson, Stewart Greenleaf, and Daylin Leach, and state Representative Tom Murt, come together or issued statements with Penn Action, CLEAR, the SEPA Budget Coalition, Education Voters PA, the Mental Health Assocation of SEPA, and the Delaware County Literacy Coatlition. to say that the House of Representatives should follow the Senate in passing an extension of FMAP. The theme of the event was that FMAP… Continue reading