BY: EVAN BRANDT
POTTSTOWN >> The people of POWER and the lower-income people they represent want to be heard — and they want to be heard by the right people.
That’s why they arranged a press conference Thursday afternoon at Pottstown High School to pressure a politician to keep his promise.
Specifically, they want state Sen. John Eichelberger, chairman of the Senate education committee, to hold hearings on the racial disparity in Pennsylvania’s education funding system that one of their researchers uncovered last year.
As Digital First Media reported in April, researcher David Mosenkis was applying Pennsylvania’s newly adopted “fair funding formula” to all education funding to determine how much each district would receive.
POTTSTOWN >> The people of POWER and the lower-income people they represent want to be heard — and they want to be heard by the right people.
That’s why they arranged a press conference Thursday afternoon at Pottstown High School to pressure a politician to keep his promise.
Specifically, they want state Sen. John Eichelberger, chairman of the Senate education committee, to hold hearings on the racial disparity in Pennsylvania’s education funding system that one of their researchers uncovered last year.
As Digital First Media reported in April, researcher David Mosenkis was applying Pennsylvania’s newly adopted “fair funding formula” to all education funding to determine how much each district would receive.
