Shapiro Is Ignoring Students Trying to Escape Failing Schools

Originally published by RealClearPennsylvania.

According to the Nation’s Report Card, nearly 70% of Pennsylvania’s eighth-graders can’t read or do math at grade level. Results are worse in Philadelphia, where 95% of Black eighth-graders aren’t proficient at math, and 89% can’t read at grade level. Moreover, 90% of Hispanic eighth-graders aren’t meeting achievement levels.

Gov. Josh Shapiro has abandoned these kids.

The declining performance in public schools has occurred despite record increases in public school funding, including more than $4 billion in increases in state taxpayer funding in the last four years alone.

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