To: The Pennsylvania State House, The Pennsylvania State Senate, and Governor Tom Wolf
Governor Wolf and PA State Legislature: Stop Funding Corporations on the Backs of Pennsylvania's ...
Sign this petition to tell Governor Wolf and the Legislature to pass a moral budget that fully funds our schools, undoes racial inequities, and makes sure corporations pay their fair share. Let’s stop funding the 1% on the backs of our children. Our children and families are worth more.
Why is this important?
In some categories, it’s not good to be #1.
It’s especially shameful to be #1 in school funding gaps.
But it’s true that Pennsylvania has the most inequitable school funding in the country. Most of us know the problem already - school districts across the state have been underfunded for decades. More is being demanded of our children, but there are fewer and fewer resources to educate them.
In some districts, we are losing arts, music, and reasonable class sizes. In other districts like Philadelphia, children have died during the school day without full-time nurses present. When we know there are enough resources to educate every child, our underfunded public school system indicates that Pennsylvania has a deep crisis of priorities.
That’s why parents, students, teachers, and people of faith and conscience are standing up to say that enough is enough – our children can’t wait any longer for fully and fairly funding schools.
Pennsylvanians are fed up with bare bones education spending. But after ousting former Governor Corbett and making promises to restore cuts, our newly elected Democratic Governor Tom Wolf is proposing just a small increase to school funding next year – only 15% of what experts say would fully fund our schools—and his plan perpetuates racial bias in the funding system from the previous administration. At the same time, he’s proposing major corporate tax cuts.
Where, we ask, is Pennsylvania’s moral leadership?
As the State Legislature deliberates about their own budget proposal, we are building a people-fueled movement that won’t settle for the myth of scarcity that there’s not enough money to fully fund schools.
For decades in Pennsylvania, corporations have avoided paying billions in state taxes. We have one of the most regressive income tax systems in the country, with a corporate CEO paying the same income tax rate as a dishwasher. No – it’s not that there’s not enough money for schools. It’s that lawmakers across the aisle are catering to the greed and self-interest of the few instead of the needs of the many.
Since March 23rd, clergy, parents, and whole faith communities across the state, across race, class, and religious lines, have been fasting to draw attention to the urgency of Pennsylvania’s ongoing school funding crisis. We’ll keep the fast up until June 30th, the deadline for the state budget. But we need your help too.
Sign this petition to tell Governor Wolf and the Legislature to pass a moral budget that fully funds our schools, undoes racial inequities, and makes sure corporations pay their fair share.
Let’s stop funding fund the 1% on the backs of our children. Our children and families are worth more.
It’s especially shameful to be #1 in school funding gaps.
But it’s true that Pennsylvania has the most inequitable school funding in the country. Most of us know the problem already - school districts across the state have been underfunded for decades. More is being demanded of our children, but there are fewer and fewer resources to educate them.
In some districts, we are losing arts, music, and reasonable class sizes. In other districts like Philadelphia, children have died during the school day without full-time nurses present. When we know there are enough resources to educate every child, our underfunded public school system indicates that Pennsylvania has a deep crisis of priorities.
That’s why parents, students, teachers, and people of faith and conscience are standing up to say that enough is enough – our children can’t wait any longer for fully and fairly funding schools.
Pennsylvanians are fed up with bare bones education spending. But after ousting former Governor Corbett and making promises to restore cuts, our newly elected Democratic Governor Tom Wolf is proposing just a small increase to school funding next year – only 15% of what experts say would fully fund our schools—and his plan perpetuates racial bias in the funding system from the previous administration. At the same time, he’s proposing major corporate tax cuts.
Where, we ask, is Pennsylvania’s moral leadership?
As the State Legislature deliberates about their own budget proposal, we are building a people-fueled movement that won’t settle for the myth of scarcity that there’s not enough money to fully fund schools.
For decades in Pennsylvania, corporations have avoided paying billions in state taxes. We have one of the most regressive income tax systems in the country, with a corporate CEO paying the same income tax rate as a dishwasher. No – it’s not that there’s not enough money for schools. It’s that lawmakers across the aisle are catering to the greed and self-interest of the few instead of the needs of the many.
Since March 23rd, clergy, parents, and whole faith communities across the state, across race, class, and religious lines, have been fasting to draw attention to the urgency of Pennsylvania’s ongoing school funding crisis. We’ll keep the fast up until June 30th, the deadline for the state budget. But we need your help too.
Sign this petition to tell Governor Wolf and the Legislature to pass a moral budget that fully funds our schools, undoes racial inequities, and makes sure corporations pay their fair share.
Let’s stop funding fund the 1% on the backs of our children. Our children and families are worth more.