The program would provide between $2,500 and $15,000 in state-funded vouchers for students in the state’s lowest performing schools to attend private schools.Īlthough he has given support to the voucher program, the governor agreed to use a line-item veto to strike it from the new state budget to placate House Democrats. House Democrats have voiced opposition to the program. The Pennsylvania Award for Student Success (or PASS) scholarship program has received support from Republicans and Democratic Gov. The state Senate Education Committee held a hearing at Alvernia University’s Upland Center on a proposed school voucher program, an occasionally testy affair focused on an issue that has held up the state budget. One of the biggest current fights in Harrisburg found its way to Reading on Tuesday.
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