{"id":15886,"date":"2025-04-10T13:24:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T17:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/?p=15886"},"modified":"2025-09-09T14:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:37:52","slug":"help-us-advocate-for-philadelphia-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/2025\/04\/10\/help-us-advocate-for-philadelphia-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Us Advocate for Philadelphia Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the February Action Meeting, the Board of Education passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/philasd.primegov.com\/Portal\/viewer?id=0&amp;type=7&amp;uid=065d93ad-a90b-4479-8ea4-b8e217cc8467\">resolution<\/a> opposing federal cuts to K-12 funding. These cuts would have a devastating impact on our most vulnerable students\u2014reducing support for low-income families, English language learners, and students with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do students in the School District of Philadelphia stand to lose?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Education Funding<\/strong> &#8211; The current budget proposal includes a reduction to Title I, which provides funding for low-income students and schools in the poorest neighborhoods; the elimination of Title II, which provides funding for teacher recruitment and training; and the elimination of Title III, which provides funding to help students learn English.\n<ul>\n<li>If approved, it could mean <strong>a loss for SDP of approximately $44.5 million<\/strong> in Title I funding, <strong>$20.6 million<\/strong> in Title II funding, and <strong>$4.2 million <\/strong>in Title III funding. <strong>In total, SDP could lose approximately $69.3 million in Title funding.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Student meals<\/strong> &#8211; In addition, the House is proposing to change the Community Eligibility Program (CEP), for school meals. The CEP allows the nation\u2019s highest-poverty schools and districts to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to all enrolled students without collecting household applications. Schools that adopt CEP are reimbursed using a formula based on participation in other specific means-tested programs, such as SNAP and TANF.There are two CEP proposals by the House: one would change eligibility from 40 percent of students receiving SNAP or TANF to 60 percent; the other would implement income verification documentation for every student in the program.Changing the percentage to 60 would not impact SDP, as 62% of its students are part of the other means-tested programs. Implementing income verification would likely result in less participation in the program, and fewer students receiving meals. Impact to SDP would vary and would be delayed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In total, passage of the House Budget proposal could result in the loss of approximately $70 million for SDP.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We need your help to protect vital education funding for our children and public education in Philadelphia! Your voice can make a difference\u2014take the time to call or write your representatives using the information below.<\/p>\n<p>Looking for a letter template? Try the resource below from the National Education Association:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nea.org\/advocating-for-change\/action-center\/take-action\/tell-congress-stop-destruction-department-education\">Stop the Destruction of the Department of Education<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15924 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/892\/2025\/04\/Untitled-drawing-3-e1745337993245-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/892\/2025\/04\/Untitled-drawing-3-e1745337993245-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/892\/2025\/04\/Untitled-drawing-3-e1745337993245.jpg 646w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15930 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/892\/2025\/04\/Untitled-drawing-2-e1745338091644-273x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/892\/2025\/04\/Untitled-drawing-2-e1745338091644-273x300.png 273w, https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/892\/2025\/04\/Untitled-drawing-2-e1745338091644.png 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the February Action Meeting, the Board of Education passed a resolution opposing federal cuts to K-12 funding. These cuts would have a devastating impact on our most vulnerable students\u2014reducing support for low-income families, English language learners, and students with disabilities. What do students in the School District of Philadelphia stand to lose? Education Funding&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"button minimal\"><a class=\"learnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/2025\/04\/10\/help-us-advocate-for-philadelphia-students\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":21976,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-2","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21976"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15886"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16276,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions\/16276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philasd.org\/schoolboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}