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Proposed education savings accounts are vouchers. Period.
A mid-state senator plans to push a bill authorizing education savings accounts, which are the latest iteration of school tuition vouchers. AFTPA President Ted Kirsch released a statement opposing this failed privatization strategy. “Let’s not waste time going down this road again – when 20-years of research has shown privatization schemes such as these fail to raise student achievement," Kirsch said. "All students and communities deserve good, neighborhood public schools with the resources to address children’s needs. That’s where we should focus our attention and invest our tax dollars.”
Welcome to Share My Lesson PA!
AFT Pennsylvania members provide their students with outstanding educational opportunities, and AFTPA helps by making sure you have the resources you need. AFTPA and Share My Lesson are bringing together vital educational resources:
- Lesson plans and materials
- Information on certification, professional development and evaluations
- Curriculum, standards, and testing.
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We hope you find these materials useful and will upload your own successful lesson plans and ideas to share with colleagues across the commonwealth.
Vouchers, EITC, ESAs don't help students
AFT Pennsylvania opposes taxpayer-funded school vouchers, education scholarship tax credits (Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) programs), which are back-door vouchers that use tax breaks to subsidize private and parochial schools. Vouchers represent a false hope for a few children, while most vouchers/scholarships are used by students already attending private schools. Vouchers do not deliver better outcomes for students and leave fewer resources for public school programs that are proven to work.
AFTPA opposes eliminating school property taxes
AFT Pennsylvania's Executive Council has approved a resolution opposing legislative efforts to eliminate school property taxes across the commonwealth. The resolution was approved unanimously by the Executive Council March 10. The property tax elimination bill has not been introduced yet.