the Philly Inquirer published this false claim

No it's not an April Fool's joke
Philly Inquirer: "State lawmakers have dramatically reduced state funding for public schools over the last generation."

Data:
Pennsylvania K-12 education funding per student:

1990: $10,512
2000: $12,328
2010: $16,089
2019: $18,238

73% inflation-adjusted increase since 1990.

Philly Inquirer:
Their claim is false even when we only look at state funding per student

1990: $4,066
2000: $4,672
2010: $5,721
2019: $6,843

68% real increase since 1990.
Here's the education funding data from the Pennsylvania Department of Education:
education.pa.gov/Teachers%20-%2…
Here's the new piece in the @PhillyInquirer with the verifiably false claim:

"State lawmakers have drastically reduced state funding for public schools over the last generation."

This false claim needs a correction.
inquirer.com/opinion/public…
The Philly Inquirer made a similar error in 2019 and they were forced to correct the verifiably false statement

Why repeat the same lie?

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30 Mar
Pennsylvania K-12 education funding per student:

1990: $10,512
2000: $12,328
2010: $16,089
2019: $18,238

73% inflation-adjusted increase since 1990.

Philly Inquirer:
Philly Inquirer: "State lawmakers have dramatically reduced state funding for public schools over the last generation."

Data:
Their claim is false even when we only look at state funding per student

1990: $4,066
2000: $4,672
2010: $5,721
2019: $6,843

68% real increase since 1990.
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A new organization combating political indoctrination in the classroom launched today
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The Kentucky Legislature overrode his veto yesterday.
He sent his children to private school

He also attended private school

I'm glad his family had those opportunities

But why fight against school choice for others?🤔
And why would giving families a choice "weaken" public schools?🤔
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The vote was 51 to 47

They needed all 51 votes to override the veto in the House. Image
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They needed all 51 votes to override the veto in the House. Image
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NEW: Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear vetoed a bill to fund students instead of systems last week

The legislature is expected to vote to override the veto today or tomorrow

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He also sent his children to private school

I'm glad his family had those opportunities

But why fight against school choice for others?🤔
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"We find that pandemic severity, as measured by the county COVID-19 hospitalization rate, had no relationship with the probability of in-person reopening."
bradmarianno.faculty.unlv.edu/working-papers/
"These findings match a growing body of literature that suggests local school reopening decisions are more about interest group influence and politics instead of pandemic spread (DeAngelis, & Makridis, 2020; Grossman et al., 2020; Hartney & Finger, 2020)"
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