Public funds for private schools is wasteful
After learning of efforts by PA Senate Republicans to allow families from all backgrounds to use tax dollars to subsidize both private school and homeschooling, it was encouraging to read a report in the Review of a bill introduced by four state representatives to support public education (“Legislation to help schools assess facilities needs and access funds,” July 3).
The proposed legislation would create a School Facilities Office in the state Department of Education in order to determine the most critical needs of each school district to make it easier for legislators to provide adequate funding to meet those needs.
As the report clearly states, the quality of every learning environment has serious impacts on outcomes for every student. All students need safe, healthy and well-maintained facilities.
The tax-supported Pennsylvania Department of Education is constitutionally responsible for public school facilities only. Diverting public taxes to private choice is thus, not only wasteful, but unconstitutional.
We should therefore thank state Reps. Fiedler, Powell, Khan and Probst for proposing a bill designed to direct state funding to public school facilities across the state that need it the most.
Gloria C. Endres
Consumer power
Many people who retired in the last 15 to 20 years tell us that they have been watching how the loss of jobs to foreign countries has not been favorable to America’s economic future. They remember when skilled jobs were plentiful, and American goods were widely available on store shelves, and how they often worked overtime to keep up with the demand of producing, shipping and selling products proudly made in the United States of America.
Today, many Americans feel that our national elected leaders have been too focused on a global economy and have not been addressing the harm that outsourcing American jobs has caused America’s economy, America’s workforce and how it added to America’s growing national debt. Americans agree it is up to national elected leaders to be the leading force we need in order to restore America’s economy and America’s prosperity.
To help get America’s economy back on track, everyone is urged to contact their local, state and national elected officials to refocus on finding ways to assist businesses to restore American-made products and more jobs for American workers rather than remaining silent while more industries and jobs are relocated to foreign countries.
The Buy American Made Campaign has been helping people understand that America’s consumers have more power than they realize as they direct their spending power toward American-made products and supporting businesses that offer American-made products.
Your participation is very important and you are asked to spread the word to others and ask them to look for, ask for and purchase American-made products everywhere possible.
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Michael Blichasz
