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Pages in category "Historically segregated African-American schools in Pennsylvania" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Chester school protests were a series of demonstrations that occurred from November 1963 through April 1964 in Chester, Pennsylvania.The demonstrations aimed to end the de facto segregation of Chester public schools that persisted after the 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v.
1932: Education [State Code] Required racially segregated high schools. 1953: Voting rights protected [Constitution] Repealed poll tax statute. 1955: Public carriers [State Code] Public carriers to be segregated. 1955: Employment [State Code] Separate washrooms in mines required.
(The Center Square) – While many states expanded and adopted school choice programs in 2024, some advocates are excited about new education options for families in 2025 – made possible because ...
However, this is not the case for some school-age children in the United States — a third of whom attend a majority single race school. A new report from… US schools remain segregated even as ...
Pennsylvania became the first state to pass an education tax credit targeted at corporations. This legislation came on May 7, 2001 and was passed with overwhelming bi-partisan support. Pennsylvania's Educational Improvement Tax Credit, known as EITC, allows companies a 75 percent tax credit for donations made to non-profit scholarships or ...
Since I was elected to the state Senate, the Erie School District has received over $80 million of new annual funding. Prior to that, schools were on the verge of shutting down.
In 2014, the William Penn School District partnered with the Public Interest Law Center along with several other school districts, parents, and advocacy groups to file a lawsuit saying that the state's process for funding schools, which relies heavily on local taxes, thereby creating significant per-student funding gaps between wealthy districts and low-wealth ones, is tantamount to ...