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Urgent Action needed to pass School Choice!

In October, the state Senate passed Senate Bill #1 (SB1), the school choice bill.  The bill would expand the education tax credits which fund scholarships for private education, and would start a voucher program for the bottom 5% of failing schools in Pennsylvania.  The Governor campaigned on this legislation, and now the House is in the driver seat and could derail the entire bill!Please call your state reps and ask them to support this bill in it’s entirety.  Due to pressure from the teachers’ union, they want to take out the voucher component of the bill.  This component is the whole pur