Basic Education Funding Commission Hearing

October 12, 2023

Pennsylvania commission on public school funding holds hearing at Pittsburgh’s Westinghouse Academy

October 12, 2023

PITTSBURGH — A bipartisan commission is trying to improve the system of funding public education in Pennsylvania. The Basic Education Funding Commission held a hearing Wednesday at Westinghouse Academy in Pittsburgh’s Homewood neighborhood. State Sen. Lindsey...

Sen. Lindsey Williams Hosts Pittsburgh Basic Education Funding Commission Hearing

October 11, 2023

Pittsburgh, Pa. − October 11, 2023 − Senator Lindsey M. Williams (D-Allegheny), Minority Chair of the Senate Education Committee, hosted the Basic Education Funding Commission for their Pittsburgh hearing, the first in the series of state-wide hearings to be held in...

Basic Education Funding Commission Hearing

October 11, 2023

State Senators learn what programs Pittsburgh Public Schools stands to lose without adequate funding

October 11, 2023

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Public Schools’ Career and Technical Education, or CTE program, offers kids 16 vocational programs across six of its high schools. “They are starting from so far behind and they have to overcome so much to get what their other peers already...

Pa.’s school funding model inhibits career and technical education growth, educators tell lawmakers

October 11, 2023

Lawmakers with the state’s Basic Education Funding Commission (BEFC) heard testimony Wednesday in Pittsburgh on the needs of high school career and technical (CTE) programs. Surrounded by fire engines, ambulances and police vehicles used by Pittsburgh Public Schools’...