Gov. Wolf joined elementary school students, legislators, and education stakeholders in Philadelphia to highlight the Level Up school funding initiative and his ongoing commitment to ensuring Pennsylvania continues to invest equitably in education.
Lawmaker’s ‘Level Up’ bill takes aim at Pa.’s education inequity in Lehigh Valley, elsewhere
Updated 7:59 AM;
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State Rep. Mike Schlossberg’s wife teaches in a building built in 1871, when the Civil War “was just that thing that ended a couple years ago,” the Democratic representative from Allentown joked. Her only form of air-conditioning is opening a window that sometimes doesn’t open.
Buildings in poor shape are usually a result of poorly funded school districts, a description that fits the Allentown School District, where Schlossberg’s wife teaches. In fact, it’s one of the 100 most underfunded Pennsylvania school districts, something Schlossberg is working to change.