Mitchell s Carnegie Resource Center focuses on accessibility with new lift
The new lift, expected to be operational by late-September, will be accessible through the building’s east door and will be able to access three levels. Written By: Hunter Dunteman | ×
The Carnegie Resource Center is home to the Mitchell Area Historical and Genealogical Societies. (Hunter Dunteman / Republic)
Mitchell’s Carnegie Resource Center is installing a wheelchair lift as one improvement in a swathe of building and accessibility projects over the past year and a half.
The building, open to the public six days a week, is home to the Mitchell Area Historical Society and the Mitchell Area Genealogical Society, and holds many historical documents, artifacts and other art pieces, including nine Oscar Howe pieces and a Howe mural on the building’s dome.
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On Feb. 3, Gov. Tom Wolf proposed a bold budget for 2021-22 that would substantially increase Pennsylvania s K-12 Basic Education Funding budget. Perhaps most importantly, it would distribute most of that increase to school districts using the Fair Funding Formula that was adopted by the legislature in 2016. Our organization, Pennsylvanians for Fair Funding, urges our legislators to utilize the fair funding formula for all BEF.
In the five years since this legislature was passed, only new funding has been directed to schools through the fair funding formula, which is only a small fraction of total school funding just 11% in the 2020-21 school year budget. Therefore, the vast majority of total basic education funding is not directed through the formula; instead it is based on historical allocations to districts. This practice fails to account for growing enrollments or rising needs in countless districts. As a result, ma
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On Feb. 3, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf proposed a bold budget for 2021-2022 that would substantially increase Pennsylvania’s K-12 Basic Education Funding (BEF) budget. Importantly, it would distribute most of that increase to all school districts using the Fair Funding Formula adopted by the legislature in 2016. We strongly urge our legislators to support this.
Pennsylvania shortchanges most public school students including roughly 80% of Black and Hispanic students by distributing BEF unfairly. For students in underfunded districts, this means fewer A.P. courses; outdated books and technology; higher student-teacher ratios; and fewer counselors, nurses and librarians.