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It contrasts the Shapiro administration budget plan with the PA Schools Work (PASW) campaign, focusing on how each would reduce inequitable and inadequate school funding across class, race, and Hispanic ethnicity. 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He also pointed out, as all observers of Pennsylvania politics recognize, that this challenge cannot be met in one year. Indeed, he said that all Pennsylvanians—legislators, advocates for education, and all of us who care about the future of our state—must come together and think through how best to reduce and finally eliminate the striking inequity and inadequacy in the state’s funding of K-12 education demonstrated in Judge Jubelirer’s long opinion, which draws heavily on the analysis of advocates and academics.  \nBut the Governor said that it’s also important to make a “down payment” this year on the new and fairly distributed funding that is necessary to meet the challenge.  \nSuch a down payment is eminently sensible for two reasons. First, every year that goes by, more of our children suffer from the devastating lack of resources in so many ofour schools. The first-graderin a severely underfunded school this year will be a second-grader next year. He or she may benefit from more fairly funded schools in third or fourth or fifth grade. But he or she may never fully  \n1 Governor Josh Shapiro, Executive Budget, 2023-2024, [https://www.budget.pa.gov/Publications%20and%20Reports/CommonwealthBudget/Documents/2023-](https://www.budget.pa.gov/Publications%20and%20Reports/CommonwealthBudget/Documents/2023-)[ ](https://www.budget.pa.gov/Publications%20and%20Reports/CommonwealthBudget/Documents/2023-)[24%20Budget%20Documents/Budget%20Book%202023-24%20WEB.pdf](24%20Budget%20Documents/Budget%20Book%202023-24%20WEB.pdf); PA Schools Work, The Roadmap to Adequate and Equitable Funding for PA Schools, [https://paschoolswork.org/wp](https://paschoolswork.org/wp)  \ncontent/uploads/PASW_roadmap_JAN_2023.pdf.  \novercome what was lost in first grade or second grade. Anything we can do to make his or her first and second grade experience better, will benefit that child and the rest ofus over the long term. Any failure on our part to do the best we can this year reflects badly on our commitment to this child and the other children in our Commonwealth.  \nSecond, there is no question that it will take more than one year of new funding to fund all of our schools adequately and equitably. So next year we should begin building on the $850 million investment in basic education and Level Up funding added under Governor Wolf to the current year budget. When we consider that inflation in general, and in education costs in particular, has been high in the last 18 months, it’s clear that every year we wait and do less than we can in reducing inadequacy and inequity in K-12 school funding makes the task even harder in future years.  \nThe Opportunity  \nThis year we have an opportunity to do more. By the end of the current fiscal year, ","cbCaiex92LfksBqe","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiex92LfksBqe","pdf",308047,"English","# Introduction\n## The Critical Task\n## The Opportunity\n## Two Proposals\n## The Administration Proposal\n## The PASW Proposal","[{\"question\":\"What is the main purpose of the paper?\",\"answer\":\"To compare two Pennsylvania proposals for a down payment toward fair and full funding of K-12 education, and to assess how far each plan reduces inequitable and inadequate funding.\"},{\"question\":\"Which two funding mechanisms does the paper focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The Fair Funding Formula and the Level Up program are the two mechanisms examined for basic education funding.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the paper characterize the PASW proposal compared with the Shapiro administration proposal?\",\"answer\":\"The PASW proposal is described as spending more money and distributing part of it through Level Up, taking a larger step toward the goal of thorough and efficient education under the Pennsylvania Constitution.\"}]","Alternative Approaches to Making a Down Payment on Education Equity | PDF",1792059749]