Tell Lancaster County state senators to stop prioritizing school vouchers over the needs of underfunded school districts [editorial]

PA State Senator Ryan Aument 

State Sens. Ryan Aument, of West Hempfield Township, and Scott Martin, of Martic Township, should explain to their constituents why they and their fellow GOP senators believe it's acceptable to hold the Level Up funding hostage.

Last week, as Level Up districts remained in limbo, Aument circulated a co-sponsorship memo about bipartisan legislation that would address deceptive event ticket sales. While we've been burned by such practices, we think we speak for most Beyoncé and Taylor Swift fans when we say that funding schools in dire need of resources is the more pressing matter.

Aument posted on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday that thousands of Pennsylvania "students in struggling school districts can't afford to wait any longer for the transformational opportunities" that the proposed school voucher program "would offer — and we won't stop fighting for them."

Sure, they'll fight for those students — but apparently not for the more than 16,000 students in the Ephrata Area, Columbia Borough and Lancaster school districts.

MORE:

https://lancasteronline.com/opinion/editorials/tell-lancaster-county-state-senators-to-stop-prioritizing-school-vouchers-over-the-needs-of-underfunded/article_9c40afd0-51c5-11ee-be6f-1f6f744ca06d.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=user-share