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Antiquated Basic Education Funding Formula is Hurting Lehigh Valley Homeowners and Students
Op-Ed Column by State Senator Lisa Boscola
The Basic Education Funding Formula is the single largest education funding stream in the commonwealth’s budget. Until 2014, each year when the General Assembly passed a budget it distributed basic education funding dollars to our school districts based on what they received the year before — regardless of whether the student population grew or shrank. This led to large
disparities throughout the state when it came to where money went versus where it was needed. Some school districts received over 70 percent of their funding for their school programs from the state while other school districts received as low as
David Bocchino is excited to announce his candidacy for a four-year term on the East Penn School Board.
Mr. Bocchino was born in Germany and grew up an Army brat. He graduated from high school in northeastern Maryland and holds a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Social Science and Secondary Education from Towson University and a JD cum laude from the University of Baltimore School of Law. He practiced law in Maryland for 15 years before moving to Pennsylvania in 2013. Mr. Bocchino has been a resident of Emmaus since October 2016 and while waiting to take the Pennsylvania bar examination in July is working in retail.
Mr. Bocchino served two years of active duty in the Army
Diane Schaffer, resident of Emmaus, announces her candidacy, seeking the position of school director on the board of East Penn School District [EPSD], on the ballot of both the Republican and Democratic parties.
Mrs. Schaffer’s childhood dream was to become a public school teacher. While circumstances put her on a different path, she has always been an advocate for children, and for quality education.
After receiving a high school diploma from Slatington High School, Slatington PA, and attending Catawba College in Salisbury NC, Diane Schaffer became involved in numerous ways to express her interest in children and education.
As Taxpayers in the Lehigh Valley, we should know how our Tax dollars are spent in our schools We have documentation of the Activism going on in the East Penn Schools that our taxes are being spent on. I don’t know about you, but all the dollars I pay to that district are meant for Academic Excellence not Activism. Teachers who are advisors to these Activist Clubs are not paid to be promoting Activism but to teach and prepare our children to succeed in their futures by imparting knowledge and accomplishments in the subjects they are paid to teach and to develop academic excellence on the part of our students. Did you know that Emmaus High School is OFF LIMITS
Jack Silva didn’t know anything about how children learn to read. What he did know is that a lot of students in his district were struggling.
Silva is the chief academic officer for Bethlehem, Pa., public schools. In 2015, only 56 percent of third-graders were scoring proficient on the state reading test. That year, he set out to do something about that.
“It was really looking yourself in the mirror and saying, ‘Which 4 in 10 students don’t deserve to learn to read?’ ” he recalls.
Bethlehem is not an outlier. Across the country, millions of kids are struggling. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 32 percent of fourth-graders and 24 percent
They’re called “special interests” for a reason. Of course I’m referring to the scores of lobby groups in Harrisburg who often fight against good ideas or good legislation, or push for bad ideas and legislation, depending upon how it affects them personally
We are saddened to report the sudden passing of Carol Allen. Ms. Allen was recently a member of the East Penn School Board. She also was a member of the Lehigh County Republican Committee, and Secretary of the Concerned East Penn Taxpayers Association. Carol Allen was an Educator and a Reading Specialist, volunteering her time with various schools.
The following analysis of the Property Tax Independence Act, HB & SB 76 was written by Robert S. Kistler – an extremely knowledgeable and very active member of the Pennsylvania Taxpayers Cyber Coalition. The battle over property tax elimination rages on in Pennsylvania. The unfortunate but predictable side is that there is much misinformation that continues to be spread about HB/SB 76, the “Property Tax Independence Act”, despite the fact that the bill has been around for years. Some of the misinformation is born from lack of understanding the bill, the rumor mill, and half truths. However, there is also a dark side to this battle, a well planned and orchestrated intentional negative propaganda campaign with regard to the bill. With November elections nearing
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