The new PA Voucher System

What's behind Josh Shapiro's support for school vouchers?

He told Spotlight PA that Shapiro wasn't involved in pushing for the program. “Any Democrat that was for school choice, I would know that,” he ...

VOUCHERS - PA Schools Work

Pennsylvania has two programs that provide students with taxpayer-funded vouchers to private and religious schools: the Educational Improvement Tax Credit ...

Key Issue: Voucher Bill HB2169 - PSEA

What is PA House Bill 2169? Tuition voucher plan will take state funds from school districts that need it most. On April 27, the ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers are resurrecting their school voucher bill

The program, called the PASS scholarship, would allow most students in the state's lowest-performing school districts up to $10,000 to spend ...

Shapiro's school voucher record gets renewed scrutiny as Harris ...

... Pennsylvania's education funding system unconstitutional. He ... Peter Hall has been a journalist in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for ...

PA's school choice debate: what's the data on vouchers?

Pennsylvania's program, if passed with the same language that is ... Voucher programs, he said, tend to grow significantly over time.

Poll: Private school vouchers opposed by more than half of Pa. voters

Most Pennsylvania voters don't support using taxpayer dollars to create a private school voucher program, a new Spotlight PA poll shows.

Inside Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro's support for private school vouchers

Since taking office last year, Shapiro has become the most prominent Democratic voice in the state for such a program. Last summer, he backed a ...

What the Pa. school voucher proposal would mean for Philly students

The scholarship amounts awarded by state voucher programs — Pennsylvania's is proposed to provide $2,500 for half-day kindergarten, up to ...

The debate over school vouchers in Pa. is back. Here's where the ...

The bill would revive the Pennsylvania Award for Student Success Scholarship Program, or PASS scholarships, which would funnel between $2,500 to ...

Governor Shapiro's proposed, historic investment in public K-12 ...

... a new voucher program to do this. Pennsylvania already spends $490 million each year on vouchers for private schools through the Educational ...

NAACP urges PA lawmakers to oppose new school voucher program

Pennsylvania Senate Republicans are pushing for the creation of a new school voucher program, sparking the country's oldest civil rights ...

Why Pennsylvania's Proposed School Choice Voucher Program is ...

The Commonwealth Court found that Pennsylvania's “fair funding formula” method to funding public schools in Pennsylvania was unconstitutional and must be ...

School voucher programs: Skyrocketing budgets, lack of accountability

No new money was secured for vouchers in the latest state spending plan either. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro speaks alongside Michigan ...

Abbreviated: Pennsylvania's Track Record on Private School ...

... voucher tax credit programs or creating a whole new voucher system. Pennsylvania doesn't have a public dollar to waste on funding private ...

Hard “pass” on new PA school voucher program | Guest Opinion

In a July 27 opinion piece, Senator Tracy Pennycuick, R-24, “set the record straight” on PASS (Pennsylvania Award for Student Success).

School vouchers in Pennsylvania again up for debate

Here's where the controversial program stands. School vouchers were a sticking a point that held up the budget last year. Pittsburgh Post- ...

The fight for school vouchers in Pa. is back - The Philadelphia Inquirer

After initially cutting a deal with Senate Republicans for a $100 million voucher program to send some students in low-performing districts to ...

Pennsylvania lawmakers weigh private school voucher program

The more options, the better. That's the argument behind the GOP-backed bill in the state senate that would create a Pennsylvania Award for ...

Cannabis, school vouchers and skill games: Here's what didn't make ...

Pennsylvania Republicans have long sought a school voucher program ... The majority of the new funding, $70 million, will bolster the ...