Health & Fitness
School Funding: Some Good News
We've had more bad news recently about efforts to defund the East Penn Schools. But have heart! Recent polling shows Pennsylvania voters more concerned about public education than many other issues, and want recent funding cuts restored.
A poll of Pennsylvania voters completed just last week shows strong support for public education in our state-- including support for restoring adequate funding to the schools. More than three quarters of voters (77%) are concerned about school funding cuts, and public school funding is the #1 most important issue voters want our public officials to address-- more important than even healthcare, taxes, and crime (click on blue graph, above).
This is especially heartening news in our own community, where efforts to defund the schools-- without any sense of what is being cut, or even if such cuts are legal-- continue to dominate media coverage of our school district.
I believe we need school board members who can balance fiscal responsibility with our community's need for excellent public schools. And I think we need members who have the educational qualifications and professional experience with complex budgets to make intelligent, meaningful contributions to the funding discussions in the future.
These recent survey results were collected by the national polling firm Lake Research Partners. Complete results of the survey are available here.