From the PATRIOT-NEWS:
On the eve of the Senate Education Committee’s hearing on a school voucher bill, newly formed groups in support and against the proposal are making themselves known and assigned themselves names that clearly delineate where they stand on this education reform.
The committee is planning a daylong hearing on Wednesday at the Capitol on a bill, sponsored by Senate Education Committee Chairman Jeffrey Piccola, R-Dauphin County, that calls for making taxpayer-funded vouchers available to low-income parents to send their children to a school of their choice. The bill would target students currently attending in failing schools in the first year and expand it to any low-income student by the third year…
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I’m not sure how I feel about this. I mean… I think it’s great that they are attempting to do something to help children of low-income parents to ensure that they are getting the best education but shouldn’t the solution to the problem be to put that money towards improving the failing schools instead of taking kids out of them and overcrowd a school that could lead to the potential of that school turning into a failing one?