{"id":10904,"date":"2023-08-30T20:39:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T00:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=10904"},"modified":"2024-01-17T20:42:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T01:42:21","slug":"senate-again-refuses-to-fund-states-most-dire-school-districts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=10904","title":{"rendered":"Senate Again Refuses to Fund State&#8217;s Most Dire School Districts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Senate Again Refuses to Fund State\u2019s Most Dire School Districts &#8211; Marc Stier, Executive Director, Penn Policy Center<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;The Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate came back today for a rare August session. It took a step toward completing the budget by passing a code bill on several uncontroversial issues. However Republican senators have failed to pass a code bill with language that would allow the expenditure of $100 million for Level Up for the state\u2019s 100 least-well-funded schools.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans keep talking about helping kids in so-called \u201cfailing schools.\u201d The only schools that don\u2019t provide a good education are those that are underfunded and that, today, they failed again to fund.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Again Refuses to Fund State\u2019s Most Dire School Districts &#8211; Marc Stier, Executive Director, Penn Policy Center &#8220;The Republican-controlled Pennsylvania Senate came back today for a rare August session. It took a step toward completing the budget by passing a code bill on several uncontroversial issues. However Republican senators have failed to pass a code bill with language that would allow the expenditure of $100 million for Level Up for the state\u2019s 100 least-well-funded schools. Senate Republicans keep talking about helping kids in so-called \u201cfailing schools.\u201d The only schools that don\u2019t provide a good education are those that are underfunded and that, today, they failed again to fund.&#8221; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=10904\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1896,"featured_media":10857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[291,41,169,288],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/PennPolicyLogoFacebookAd-350x350-1.png?fit=350%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p35YuU-2PS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10905,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10904\/revisions\/10905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}