Please share the following letter with Lady Wolf to put an end to education funding disparities:
Dear First Lady Wolf,
You are the best positioned person in Pennsylvania to help us with our cause. We are kindly asking for your help!
Act 126 of 2014 established the Special Education Funding formula law and Act 35 of 2016 established the Basic Education Funding formula law. Since enactment, these two laws remain unfunded.
As a direct result, nearly 825,000 of the state’s poorest, mostly minority children attend severely underfunded school districts. In fact, 150 school districts are underfunded by $1.22 Billion in Basic and Special Education funding. At the same time, 14 school districts get $10 Million more than their baseline-funding.
There are dozens of state and national reports demonstrating Pennsylvania sustaining the worse, most inequitable, and racist K-12 education funding in the United States. You can see these impacts here:
www.SupportEquityFirst.org
For six (6) years, we have tried every which way to get this done, but nothing has worked.
Governor Wolf has two (2) years left to solidify his legacy as the 47th Governor of Pennsylvania.
It would be the most tremendous legacy for Tom Wolf to be the first and only Governor that ended racism in Pennsylvania school funding.
We hope you will take up our cause with your husband, the Governor.
Thank you.