{"id":1965845,"date":"2023-07-06T16:40:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-governor-drops-school-choice-agenda-under-pressure-from-teachers-unions\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T16:41:32","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T20:41:32","slug":"pennsylvania-governor-drops-school-choice-agenda-under-pressure-from-teachers-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-governor-drops-school-choice-agenda-under-pressure-from-teachers-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"PA Governor abandons school choice agenda due to teachers&#8217; unions pressure."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvania-governor-drops-school-choice-agenda-under-pressure-from-teachers-unions%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1965845&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Pennsylvania Governor Drops Support for School Choice Initiatives<\/h2>\n<p>Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro (D.) has made a surprising decision to withdraw his support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/limbaugh-bidens-disgraceful-exploitation-of-the-tulsa-race-massacre\/\" title=\"LIMBAUGH: Biden\u2019s Disgraceful Exploitation Of The Tulsa Race Massacre\">school choice initiatives<\/a> in the face of opposition from Democrats and teachers&#8217; unions.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat had previously shown support for a $100 million voucher program in the state budget, with the backing of Senate Republicans. However, he recently announced that he would abandon the proposal after House Democrats refused to budge. Shapiro made it clear to Democrats that if they pass the budget, which is already several days past its deadline, he will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rick-scott-on-11-point-plan-with-128-promises-from-republicans-we-win-elections-by-having-plans\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Rick Scott on 11-Point Plan with 128 Promises from Republicans: \u2018We Win Elections by Having Plans\u2019\">line-item veto<\/a> the vouchers out.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Our Commonwealth should not be plunged into a painful, protracted budget impasse while our communities wait for the help and resources this commonsense budget will deliver,&#8221; Shapiro said in a Wednesday statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The voucher program aimed to provide students in low-achieving school districts with access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-are-we-going-to-tell-parents-watch-democratic-state-senator-break-from-party-confront-colleagues-over-school-choice\/\" title=\"\u2018What Are We Going To Tell Parents?\u2019: Watch Democratic State Senator Break From Party, Confront Colleagues Over School Choice\">private school scholarships<\/a>. Senate Republicans had made it clear that their passing of the budget was contingent on the inclusion of the voucher program.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania State Education Association, the largest teachers&#8217; union in the state, strongly opposed the measure. In a June statement, the union expressed its absolute opposition to what they referred to as a &#8220;voucher scheme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This incident is just the latest example of Democrats attacking plans that aim to help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-governor-drops-school-choice-agenda-under-pressure-from-teachers-unions\/\" title=\"PA Governor abandons school choice agenda due to teachers' unions pressure.\">students leave failing public school districts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another Democratic governor, Roy Cooper (N.C.), declared a state of emergency in May, claiming that a Republican plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-governor-declares-state-of-emergency-over-republicans-school-choice-plan\/\" title=\"Governor declares emergency over GOP's school choice plan.\">fund school choice programs<\/a> would drop &#8220;an atomic bomb on public education&#8221; in his state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D.) withdrew his backing for school choice initiatives due to opposition from Democrats and teachers&#8217; unions. He had previously supported a $100 million voucher program in the state budget with Senate Republicans&#8217; support. However, on Wednesday, he announced his decision to abandon the proposal as House Democrats remained unyielding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1965846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}