By Jodi Weigand
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Two state senators this morning released their bipartisan plan to use state money to give low-income students at failing schools the chance to go to private school.
The school choice legislation co-sponsored by Sens. Anthony Williams, D-Philadelphia, and Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin, would give income-eligible parents an annual voucher equal to 100 percent of the state’s per-pupil subsidy to their school district to attend the public, private or parochial school of their choice. A family of four would qualify with an annual income of no more than $28,665.
Students at 144 public elementary or secondary schools that fall in the bottom 5 percent in reading and math on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment test would be eligible for vouchers.
The legislation would be phased in over three years. In the first year, only low-income students currently attending persistently failing schools would be eligible. In the second year, low-income students living within failing schools’ boundaries, but currently attending private schools, would be eligible; and in the third year, all low-income students regardless of school district would be eligible.
The school choice legislation co-sponsored by Sens. Anthony Williams, D-Philadelphia, and Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin, would give income-eligible parents an annual voucher equal to 100 percent of the state’s per-pupil subsidy to their school district to attend the public, private or parochial school of their choice. A family of four would qualify with an annual income of no more than $28,665.
Students at 144 public elementary or secondary schools that fall in the bottom 5 percent in reading and math on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment test would be eligible for vouchers.
The legislation would be phased in over three years. In the first year, only low-income students currently attending persistently failing schools would be eligible. In the second year, low-income students living within failing schools’ boundaries, but currently attending private schools, would be eligible; and in the third year, all low-income students regardless of school district would be eligible.
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